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English Professor William Harney of Endicott College believes the eyes are the windows to the soul. Focus your eyes on this poem:

Professor William Harney

Custody of the Eyes

Once, in Brittany,

While my wife and I peered from a parked car,

A nun pedaled her bike

Along the village causeway,

Her habit floating up, two

Baguettes in a wicker basket

Strapped above her back wheel.

We saw her but what did she see, her eyes

On a swath of road

Wide as her handlebars,

Her mind on God?

— William Harney

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