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Read the excerpt from "On Imagination” by Phillis Wheatley.

Winter austere forbids me to aspire,
And northern tempests damp the rising fire;
They chill the tides of Fancy’s flowing sea,
Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay.

Which line in the excerpt contains a caesura?

“Winter austere forbids me to aspire,”
“And northern tempests damp the rising fire;”
“They chill the tides of Fancy’s flowing sea,”
“Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay.”
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“Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay.”