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First Line: Blue! 'tis the life of heaven, - the domain
Last Line: When in an eye thou art alive with fate!
Variant Title(s): "blue Eyes (answer To A Sonnet Ending Thus: -);""blue! 'tis The Life Of Heaven, - The Domain"";
Subject(s): Admiration; Eyes


BLUE! 'T is the life of heaven, -- the domain
Of Cynthia, -- the wide palace of the sun, --
The tent of Hesperus, and all his train, --
The bosom of clouds, gold, gray, and dun.
Blue! 'T is the life of waters -- ocean
And all its vassal streams: pools numberless
May rage, and foam, and fret, but never can
Subside, if not to dark-blue nativeness.
Blue! Gentle cousin of the forest-green,
Married to green in all the sweetest flowers --
Forget-me-not, -- the blue-bell, -- and, that queen
Of secrecy, the violet: what strange powers
Hast thou, as a mere shadow! But how great,
When in an Eye thou art alive with fate!




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