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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344333" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eyes And Tears</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How wisely Nature did decree,<br>With the same Eyes to weep and see!<br>That, having view'd the object vain,<br>They might be ready to complain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And since the Self-deluding Sight,<br>In a false Angle takes each hight;<br>These Tears which better measure all,<br>Like wat'ry Lines and Plummets fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two Tears, which Sorrow long did weigh<br>Within the Scales of either Eye,<br>And then paid out in equal Poise,<br>Are the true price of all my Joyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What in the World most fair appears,<br>Yea even Laughter, turns to Tears:<br>And all the Jewels which we prize,<br>Melt in these Pendants of the Eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have through every Garden been,<br>Amongst the Red,the White, the Green;<br>And yet, from all the flow'rs I saw,<br>No Hony, but these Tears could draw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the all-seeing Sun each day<br>Distills the World with Chymick Ray;<br>But finds the Essence only Showers,<br>Which straight in pity back he powers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet happy they whom Grief doth bless,<br>That weep the more, and see the less:<br>And, to preserve their Sight more true,<br>Bath still their Eyes in their own Dew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Magdalen, in Tears more wise<br>Dissolv'd those captivating Eyes,<br>Whose liquid Chains could flowing meet<br>To fetter her Redeemers feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not full sailes hasting loaden home,<br>Nor the chast Ladies pregnant Womb,<br>Nor Cynthia Teeming show's so fair,<br>As two Eyes swoln with weeping are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sparkling Glance that shoots Desire,<br>Drench'd in these Waves, does lose it fire.<br>Yea oft the Thund'rer pitty takes<br>And here the hissing Lightning slakes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Incense was to Heaven dear,<br>Not as a Perfume, but a Tear.<br>And Stars shew lovely in the Night,<br>But as they seem the Tears of Light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ope then mine Eyes your double Sluice,<br>And practise so your noblest Use.<br>For others too can see, or sleep;<br>But only humane Eyes can weep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now like two Clouds dissolving, drop,<br>And at each Tear in distance stop:<br>Now like two Fountains trickle down:<br>Now like two floods o'return and drown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus let your Streams o'reflow your Springs,<br>Till Eyes and Tears be the same things:<br>And each the other's difference bears;<br>These weeping Eyes, those seeing Tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Note:<br>Magdala, lascivos sic quum dimisit Amantes,<br>Fervidaque in castas lumina solvit aquas;<br>Haesit in irriguo lachrymarum compede Christus,<br>Et tenuit sacros uda Catena pedes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Marvell">Andrew Marvell</a><div class=q>
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With the same Eyes to weep and see!
That, having view'd the object vain,
They might be ready to complain.

And since the Self-deluding Sight,
In a false Angle takes each hight;
These Tears which better measure all,
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