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Poems and Sonnets

By George Barlow

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BEAUTY WITH GREEN EYES.

Beauty with green eyes,
Beauty with grey,
Soft as the sunrise,
Bright as the day,
Be to me kind skies,
Hearken, I pray;
Beauty with grey eyes,
Beauty with brown,
Lo! what a depth lies,
Deep—deep down—
You must be very wise!
No—don't frown;

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Beauty with brown eyes,
Beauty with green,
Just as each shade dies,
My sighs, Queen,
Follow, and sorrow flies
Colours between!