The toll or tick of a clock, the setting sun, withering flowers, falling leaves, the autumn harvest are all indications of time passing. They are all reminders that the young man is running out of time to procreate. This sonnet is saying that the only way to defeat death is to have beautiful children. Time is being personified in this sonnet, as it is capitalized is carries a scythe. The speaker compares time to the grim reaper when he says time carries the scythe.
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