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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.
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,
We see things not as they are but as we are.
We see things not as they are but as we are.
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.
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 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.
And for to se, and eek for to be seye.
And for to se, and eek for to be seye.
