Read the passage from "The Battle of Blenheim".

I find them in the garden,
For there's many here about,
And often when I go to plough,
The ploughshare turns them out!
For many thousand men, "said he,
"Were slain in that great victory.

What is the tone in the passage?

A. Bleak
B. Matter-of-Fact
C. Bitter
D. Sincere