OH! crystal eyes, in which my image lay <br />While I was near, as in a fountain's wave; <br />Let it not in like manner pass away <br />When I am gone; for I am Love's true slave, <br />And in my eyes thine image dwells enshrined, <br />Like one who dazzled hath beheld the sun, <br />So that to other beauty I am blind, <br />And scarce distinguish what I gaze upon: <br />Let it be thus with thee! By all our vows,-- <br />By the true token-ring upon thy hand,-- <br />Let such remembrance as my worth allows <br />Between thee and each bright temptation stand,-- <br />That I, in those clear orbs, on my return, <br />As in the wave's green depth, my shadow may discern.<br /><br />Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xiv-6/
