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| BLACK eyes! in your dark orbs do lie | |
| My ill, or happy, destiny; | |
| If with clear looks you me behold, | |
| You give me mines and mounts of gold; | |
| If you dart forth disdainful rays, | 5 |
| To your own dye you turn my days. | |
| Black eyes, in your dark orbs, by changes dwell, | |
| My bane or bliss, my paradise or hell. | |
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| That lamp, which all the stars doth blind, | |
| Yields to your lustre, in some kind; | 10 |
| Though you do wear, to make you bright, | |
| No other dress but that of night; | |
| He glitters only in the day; | |
You, in the dark, your beams display.
Black eyes, in your dark orbs, etc. | |
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| The cunning thief that lurks for prize, | 15 |
| At some dark corner watching lies: | |
| So that heart-robbing god doth stand | |
| In your black lobbies, shaft in hand, | |
| To rifle me of what I hold | |
More precious far than Indian gold.
Black eyes, in your dark orbs, etc. | 20 |
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| O powerful negromantic eyes! | |
| Who in your circles strictly pries, | |
| Will find that Cupid with his dart, | |
| In youth doth practise the black art; | |
| And, by those spells I am possest, | 25 |
Tries his conclusions in my breast.
Black eyes, in your dark orbs, etc. | |
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| Look on me, though in frowning wise; | |
| Some kinds of frowns become Black Eyes; | |
| As pointed diamonds, being set, | |
| Cast greater lustre out of jet? | 30 |
| Those pieces we esteem most rare, | |
| Which in night-shadows postured are; | |
| Darkness in churches congregates the sight; | |
| Devotion strays in glaring light. | |
| Black eyes, in your dark orbs, by changes dwell, | 35 |
| My bane or bliss, my paradise or hell. | |
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