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O praise me not with your lips, dear one!          Though your tender words I prize.     But dearer by far is the soulful gaze          Of your eyes, your beautiful eyes         Your tender, loving eyes.     O chide me not with your lips, dear one!          Though I cause your bosom sighs.     You can make repentance deeper far          By your sad, reproving eyes,         Your sorrowful, troubled eyes.     Words, at the best, are but hollow sounds;          Above, in the beaming skies,     The constant stars say never a word,          But only smile with their eyes -         Smile on with their lustrous eyes.     Then breathe no vow with your lips, dear one;          On the winged wind speech flies.     But I read the truth of your noble heart          In your soulful, speaking eyes -         In your deep and beautiful eyes.

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"O praise me not with your lips, dear one!..."

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