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Shakespeare's Sonnet 24


  1    Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
  2    Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
  3    My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
  4    And perspective it is best painter's art.
  5    For through the painter must you see his skill,
  6    To find where your true image pictur'd lies;
  7    Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,
  8    That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.
  9    Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
 10    Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
 11    Are windows to my breast, wherethrough the sun
 12    Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;
 13      Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art:
 14      They draw but what they see, know not the heart.
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"Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
Are windows to my breast"

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