Read the excerpt from the poem “barbara frietchie”. he glanced: the old flag met his sight. what do the action words in this sentence tell the reader ?

"such has been the patient suffrence of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to after their former systems of government. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of reapeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishedment of an absolute tyranny over these states." which statement best describes the excerpt