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And every eye
Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.
And every eye
Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.
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.
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.)
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.
A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.
[Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]
A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.
[Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]
Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue
The visual nerve, for he had much to see.
Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue
The visual nerve, for he had much to see.
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.
