Read the quotation from "A Hymn to the Evening". “Night's leaden sceptre seals my drowsy eyes,Then cease, my song, till fair Aurora rise.”Wheatley uses the word leaden in these lines to suggest that

“Leaden” suggests something heavy, and the speaker’s eyes are described as “drowsy.” The speaker says the song will stop until Aurora, or dawn, rises, showing that the speaker is tired and ready to rest. Therefore, the best answer is “the speaker is tired and ready to rest.”

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