The following sentence is a fused (or run-on) sentence: May stood on the porch and watched the first light of morning approach slowly across the fields it was a new day. In which sentence is a semicolon correctly placed between the two independent clauses?
A) May stood on the porch and watched the first light of morning approach slowly across the fields; and it was a new day.
B) May stood on the porch and watched; the first light of morning approach slowly across the fields it was a new day.
C) May stood on the porch and watched the first light of morning approach slowly across the fields; it was a new day.