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HER HAIR AND EYES.
The heavenly airs from yon green laurel roll'd, / Where Love to Phoebus whilom dealt his stroke, / Where on my neck was placed so sweet a yoke, / That freedom thence I hope not to behold, / O'er me prevail, as o'er that Arab old / Medusa, when she changed him to an oak; / Nor ever can the fairy knot be broke / Whose light outshines the sun, not merely gold; / I mean of those bright locks the curled snare / Which folds and fastens with so sweet a grace / My soul, whose humbleness defends alone.
Her mere shade freezes with a cold despair / My heart, and tinges with pale fear my face; / And oh! her eyes have power to make me stone.
MACGREGOR.