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In line 5 of Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare, what does "drown an eye" mean?

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Sonnet 30,’ also known as ‘When to the sessions of sweet silent thought,’ is number thirty of one hundred fifty-four that Shakespeare wrote over his lifetime. It is part of the Fair Youth sequence of sonnets (numbers one through one hundred twenty-six). In this particular poem, the speaker discusses the Fair Youth’s ability to raise his spirits even when he is at his most downtrodden.

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