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Sweet eyes of blue! The stars by night,
That swoon the world with laughing light,
  And touch the hills with tender glow
  While all the vales are kissed below,
Beside you would no more be bright.

My worlds ye are, and while I throw
My heart to catch the beams that flow
  From your fair shrine, my woes take flight,
    Sweet eyes of blue!

Glad orbs of beauty! In your sight
My soul mounts up with secret might,
  Till Eden’s lovely bowers I know;
  And as through Heaven’s gates I go,
The pleasures all my sorrow smite,
    Sweet eyes of blue!