disarmament of the two. In the first line the lions paws are blunted, which any mere
             mortal can do easily with a file. However, the omnipotent Time is the only one who can
             "Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws" (3). The use of the word pluck creates
             a sense of the dainty extraction of the tiger's teeth with the utmost of ease, which no man
             can perform. The forth line, and end of the stanza of thought climaxes on Times power.
             As referred to before, Time has the power not only to "blunt the lions paws", "Pluck the
             keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws", "Make the earth devour her own sweet brood",
             but also to "burn the long-lived Phoenix in her blood" (1-4). The Phoenix is a
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