Classic Poem

Celinda, by what potent art
Or unresisted charm,
Dost thou thine ear and frozen heart
Against my passion arm?

Or by what hidden influence
Of powers in one combin'd
Dost thou rob love of either sense,
Made deaf as well as blind?

Sure thou, as friends, united hast
Two distant Deities,
And scorn within thy heart hast plac'd,
And love within thine eyes.

Or those soft fetters of thy hair,
A bondage that disdains
All liberty, do guard thine ear
Free from all other chains.

Then my complaint how canst thou hear,
Or I this passion fly,
Since thou imprisoned hast thine ear
And not confin'd thine eye?