“Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes
Which starlike sparkle in their skies;
Nor be you proud that you can see
All hearts your captives, yours yet free”

—  Robert Herrick , book Hesperides

Poem "To Dianeme" http://www.bartleby.com/106/88.html
Hesperides (1648)

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