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TO HER EYES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black eyes if you seem dark
Last Line: Through black, cannot but be divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Eyes


Black eyes if you seem dark,
It is because your beams are deep,
And with your soul united keep:
Who could discern
Enough into them, there might learn,
Whence they derive that mark;
And how their power is such,
That all the wonders which proceed from thence,
Affecting more the mind than sense,
Are not so much
The works of light, as influence.
As you then joined are
Unto the Soul, so it again
By its connexion doth pertain
To that first cause,
Who giving all their proper Laws,
By you doth best declare
How he at first being hid
Within the veil of an eternal night,
Did frame for us a second light,
And after bid.
It serve for ordinary sight.
His image then you are.
If there be any yet who doubt
What power it is that doth look out
Through that your black,
He will not an example lack,
If he suppose that there
Were grey, or hazel Glass,
And that through them, though sight or soul might shine,
He must yet at the last define,
That beams which pass
Through black, cannot but be divine.







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