What words or phrases in this excerpt from "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant best help to reveal the meaning of the word blight as it is used in the poem?She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness,ere he is aware.Whenthoughts
Of the last bitter hour come likea blight
Over thyspirit,and sad images
Of thestern agony, and shroud, and pall.
Andbreathless darkness, and the narrow house,
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart--
Go forth, under

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What words or phrases in this excerpt from "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant best help to reveal the meaning of the word blight as it is used in the poem?She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides 
Into his darker musings, with a mild 
And healing sympathy, that steals away 
Their sharpness,ere he is aware.Whenthoughts 
Of the last bitter hour come likea blight 
Over thyspirit,and sad images
Of thestern agony, and shroud, and pall. 
Andbreathless darkness, and the narrow house, 
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart-- 
Go forth, under