“And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39
“Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.”
No. LXIV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: Here's ivy! — take them, as I used to do
Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.
Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
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