ANOTHER VERSION.

With one eye! Ah! but rather to me give

A hundred or a hundred-thousand, Lord.

All Argus' eyes were no superlative

To view the glories Thy three heavens afford.

Or, O my God, if unto those who die,

It be Thy will only to give one eye,

Grant my whole body that one eye to be,

That thus I may forever gaze on Thee. G.

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