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CXLI



In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, 

For they in thee a thousand errors note;

But \'tis my heart that loves what they despise,

Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.

Nor are mine ears with thy tongue\'s tune delighted;

Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,

Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited

To any sensual feast with thee alone:

But my five wits nor my five senses can

Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee,

Who leaves unsway\'d the likeness of a man,

Thy proud heart\'s slave and vassal wretch to be:

  Only my plague thus far I count my gain,

  That she that makes me sin awards me pain.

 	--William Shakespeare

XLVII



Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,

And each doth good turns now unto the other:

When that mine eye is famish\'d for a look,

Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,

With my love\'s picture then my eye doth feast,

And to the painted banquet bids my heart;

Another time mine eye is my heart\'s guest,

And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:

So, either by thy picture or my love,

Thy self away, art present still with me;

For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,

And I am still with them, and they with thee;

  Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight

  Awakes my heart, to heart\'s and eye\'s delight.

 	--William Shakespeare

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
-Shakespeare, As You Like It

If you\'ve seen one redwood, you\'ve seen them all.
Ronald Reagan