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Sweet of my poet how sweet are the eyes, the eye-lids

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    METRUM PRAXILLAE

    EYES

    SWEET of my Poet how sweet are the eyes, the 
         eye-lids, 
    Open as clear to the sun as the flowers of noon-tide ; 
    Honeyed the light they secure in their shaded amber, 
    Filling the sense with desire to inhale their fragrance, 
    Linger, and feast at their brink as at brink of roses.

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