Classic Poem

Blue eyes and jet
Fell out one morn,
Azure cried in a pet,
" Away, dark scorn! —
" We are brilliant and blue
" As the waves of the sea —
" And as cold and untrue
" And as changeable ye.

" We are born of the sky,
" Of a summer night,
" When the first stars lie
" In a bed of blue light;
" From the cloudy zone
" Round the setting sun,
" Like an angel's throne,
" Are our glories won. "

" Pretty ladies, hold, "
Cupid said to the eyes —
For beauties that scold
" Are seldom wise;
" 'Tis not colour I seek
" Love's fires to impart —
" Give me eyes that can speak
" From the depths of the heart. "