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Which excerpt from "The Turtle” includes words that create a calm and welcoming mood?

skin of the water, dragging her shell
with its mossy scutes
across the shallows and through the rushes
to dig with her ungainly feet
a nest, and hunker there spewing
her white eggs down
of her patience, her fortitude,
her determination to complete
what she was born to do –
It isn’t even hers but came to her
in the rain or the soft wind,
which is a gate through which her life keeps walking.

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The lines near the end — "It isn’t even hers but came to her / in the rain or the soft wind, / which is a gate through which her life keeps walking." — create a calm, welcoming mood. Words like "rain," "soft wind," and the image of a gentle "gate" and a life that "keeps walking" evoke quiet continuity and openness.