Loveliest of lovely things are they,
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The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye
Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
Weep not that the world changes—did it keep
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.
And the blue gentian flower, that, in the breeze,
Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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