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surmount: surpass.
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glass: mirror. indeed: i.e., as I really am.
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beated and chopp'd: beaten and battered. tann'd antiquity: dried (like tanned leather) and darkened with age.
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iniquity: wickedness; sin.
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'Tis thee, myself: Here the poet addresses his beloved as his other self.