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"Dark eyes
are dearer far
Than those that mock the hyacinthine
bell."
Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven, -the domain
Of Cynthia, -the wide palace of the sun, -
The tent
of Hesperus, and all his train, -
The bosomer of
clouds, gold, gray, and dun.
Blue! 'Tis the life of
waters: -Ocean
And all its vassal streams, pools
numberless,
May rage, and foam, and fret, but never
can
Subside, if not to dark-blue nativeness.
Blue!
gentle cousin of the forest-green,
Married to green
in all the sweetest flowers -
Forget-me-not, -the
blue-bell, -and, that queen
Of secrecy, the violet:
what strange powers
Hast thou, as a mere shadow! But
how great,
When in an Eye thou art alive with fate!
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