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...highly figurative and picturesque : — " When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the...bristly beard; Then of thy beauty do I question make." Son. 12. A still more lovely sketch, illustrative of the uneasiness which he felt in consequence of...

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...less delightful is the following passage : " When I do count the clock that tells thetime, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night, When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silvered o'er with white ; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy...