I cannot withhold Shelley's exquisite version:

"Fair star of life and love, my soul's delight!

Why lookest thou on the crystalline skies?

O that my spirit were yon heaven of night,

Which gazes on thee with its thousand eyes!"

_Revolt of Islam_, c. ix. st. 36.

Dr. Wellesley's _Anthologia Polyglotta_ contains several versions of

Plato's lines. There is also one by Swynfen Jervis, in Lewis's

_Biographical History of Philosophy_, s. v. Plato.

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