Question

Can you pls explain these lines? "For the cold used sleep to extend its sway over all things even as false friend lulls his chosen victim with caressing smile" [ CH. The Letter ]

Answer 1

The cold spreads a sleepy feeling over all things which makes us lazy to get up just like a fake friend who sings lullaby to a chosen victim pretending to b loving with a caressing smile (which is also faked)

Answer 2

The lines explained that when the cold breezes felt on our body it makes us lazy.

EXPLANATION:

It feels so good and we start feeling sleepy. We start yawning and then eventually sleep.

It acts just like a false friend who is not actually a friend but pretend to be our well-wisher. This friend would have a caressing smile on his face while he will sing us a lullaby till we sleep and would kill us in our sleep.