Originally Posted by
OrphanPip
Well I figure it's an implicit metaphor with an unnamed tenor.
" you numberless infinities /Of souls," This is humanity.
"All whom the flood did, and fire shall o'erthrow,
All whom war, dearth (famine), age, agues (fevers), tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance hath slain, and you whose eyes
Shall behold God, and never taste death's woe" This is an extension of the metaphor, as it describes all of humanity in a way by describing all the ways people can die, and mentioning those who will be there at judgment day.