WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST (NOTE IT IS NOT C)

Which word in this excerpt from "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae has a connotation of continued responsibility?

Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

A. Failing
B. Torch
C. Faith
D. Sleep