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If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you.
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you.
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who backwards looks.)
Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars.
Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars.
A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.
[Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]
A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.
[Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]
Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue
The visual nerve, for he had much to see.
Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue
The visual nerve, for he had much to see.
The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he
Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.
The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he
Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.
And finds with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black--nor white so very white.
And finds with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black--nor white so very white.
He that had neither beene kithe nor kin,
Might have seene a full fayre sight.
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He that had neither beene kithe nor kin,
Might have seene a full fayre sight.
- Thomas Percy,
