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But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul

Which struggled thro' and chasten'd down the whole.

Speaking of Zuleika, he announces that the eye itself is the picture of the soul:—

In Leila's eyes he sees the same spirituality, and expresses the thought thus:—

Of Lesbia's eye, he says:—

To the Maid of Athens he vows:—

In one of his sonnets to Genevra, he says, he sees contemplation and sorrow's softness, which we give in his own inimitable words:—

And again—

To Caroline, he says—