select the passage that has a more wondrous tone.\nin that fresh, cool atmosphere, the hylas were peeping…

select the passage that has a more wondrous tone.\nin that fresh, cool atmosphere, the hylas were peeping and the toads ringing about the lake. it was as if the season had revolved backward two or three months, or i had arrived at the abode of perpetual spring.\ndeep silence fell about the little camp, positioned there so vulnerably in the jaws of the wilderness. the lake gleamed like a sheet of black glass beneath the stars. the cold air stung.\nadapted from henry david thoreau, canoeing in the wilderness and algernon blackwood, the wendigo

select the passage that has a more wondrous tone.\nin that fresh, cool atmosphere, the hylas were peeping and the toads ringing about the lake. it was as if the season had revolved backward two or three months, or i had arrived at the abode of perpetual spring.\ndeep silence fell about the little camp, positioned there so vulnerably in the jaws of the wilderness. the lake gleamed like a sheet of black glass beneath the stars. the cold air stung.\nadapted from henry david thoreau, canoeing in the wilderness and algernon blackwood, the wendigo

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Brief Explanations:

The first passage uses phrases like "abode of perpetual spring" which evoke a sense of wonder and magic. The second passage has a more eerie and tense tone with words like "deep silence", "vulnerably", "black glass" and "cold air stung".

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The first passage.