See and to be seen.

See and to be seen.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you.

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who backwards looks.)

And for to se, and eek for to be seye.

And for to se, and eek for to be seye.

The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde,
The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne.

The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde,
The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne.

The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he
Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.

The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he
Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.

He that had neither beene kithe nor kin,
Might have seene a full fayre sight.
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He that had neither beene kithe nor kin,
Might have seene a full fayre sight.
- Thomas Percy,

And finds with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black--nor white so very white.

And finds with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black--nor white so very white.

We see things not as they are but as we are.

We see things not as they are but as we are.