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"Dark eyes are dearer far / Than those that mock the hyacinthine bell."
By J. H. Reynolds / Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven, -- the domain / Of Cynthia, -- the wide palace of the sun, --
The tent of Hesperus, and all his train, --
The bosomer of clouds, gold, gray, and dun.
Blue! 'Tis 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!