In “A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown,” readers can infer the speaker experiences feelings of helplessness as he surveils the scene inside the church. Which lines from the poem support this inference?

“I stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster’s face is white as a lily,) / Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o’er the scene fain to absorb it all,”

“Resuming, marching, ever in darkness marching, on in the ranks, / The unknown road still marching.”

“But first I bend to the dying lad, his eyes open, a half-smile gives he me, / Then the eyes close, calmly close, and I speed forth to the darkness,”

“Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps,”