IV-III LOVE IS NOT BLIND
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ove is not blind. I see with single eyeYour ugliness and other women’s grace.I know the imperfection of your face,--The eyes too wide apart, the brow too highFor beauty. Learned from earliest youth am IIn loveliness, and cannot so eraseIts letters from my mind, that I may traceYou faultless, I must love until I die.More subtle is the sovereignty of love:So am I caught that when I say, “Not fair,”’Tis but as if I said, “Not here--not there--Not risen--not writing letters.” Well I knowWhat is this beauty men are babbling of;I wonder only why they prize it so.
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