He describes "heaven" as having prepared the "powders to enrich [her] hair" (lines 7 and 8) and that the golden atoms "doth stray" (line 5) to her hair when it becomes night. ... "[W]hen May is past/ in your sweet dividing throat/ She winters and keeps warm her note" (lines 10-12) explains that when the nightingale migrates and stops singing, the nightingale is just resting in the woman's throat. ... Where stanza two talked about the light of day, stanza four talks about the lights of the night- the lights being the stars. Carew writes: Ask me no mo...

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Here the sweep's unfeeling sanctimonious parents have clothed him in the clothes of death and taught him to sing the notes of woe. ... Unlike the nurse of Innocence, she does not encourage the children to enjoy the pleasures of their youth, but seeks to shatter their joy with the sour comment: Your spring and your day are wasted in play, And your winter and night in disguise. ...

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