Look not in my eyes, for fear <br />Thy mirror true the sight I see, <br />And there you find your face too clear <br />And love it and be lost like me. <br />One the long nights through must lie <br />Spent in star-defeated sighs, <br />But why should you as well as I <br />Perish? gaze not in my eyes. <br /> <br />A Grecian lad, as I hear tell, <br />One that many loved in vain, <br />Looked into a forest well <br />And never looked away again. <br />There, when the turf in springtime flowers, <br />With downward eye and gazes sad, <br />Stands amid the glancing showers <br />A jonquil, not a Grecian lad.<br /><br />Alfred Edward Housman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/look-not-in-my-eyes-for-fear/
