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59
THE EYES.
So many looks, so many diff'rent eyes,Express variety; that Love defies
The ablest Poets, to proclaim what pair,
Do best adorn or beautify the fair.
Some see expression in the darkest blue;
Some like the color of a lighter hue;
Some pleas'd with hazel, some with darker brown;
Some like them looking up, and others down;
The large black eye, this vision will delight,
Small, sharp, and piercing, suits another's sight.
But various beauties various mortals spy,
In shape, in colour, or in flash of eye.
But those shine clearest in the Poets sight,
Which speak the spirit fervent. Such, are bright,
Pure, whole, entire, entrancd, extatic, seen,
In virtue lovely, and in wisdom keen;
In kindness glist'ning, and in pity clear,
Fill'd with affection, or Compassion's tear.
No woman's eye e'er shines with sweeter grace,
Than when expression lightens up her face
Call'd forth by feeling, pious, tender, kind,
The surest proof of Virtue and of Mind.
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