UPON HER EYES.
by Robert Herrick


    CLEAR are her eyes,
    Like purest skies.
Discovering from thence
    A baby there
    That turns each sphere,
Like an Intelligence.


A Baby, see note to 38, "To his mistress objecting to
him neither toying nor talking".


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 243.


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