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

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the speaker is tired and ready to rest.

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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

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