When I search for "levabo oculos", Google suggests "lavabo oculos", which is the pun I immediately thought of on seeing the phrase, as a more erudite version of "The goggles, they do nothing!" or similar sentiments. There's only one page with "lavabo oculos", though, in Ladin(?), and I imagine it's a typo.

I'm ashamed to say that 'levabo oculos' makes me think of Harry Potter.

I, too, thought of "lavabo" (but not of Harry).

FYI, Vulgate has "levavi".

With this song I write your name on the wall.

More fun! Unpacking and arranging books, perusing the inscriptions and bookplates of previous owners, random dipping! I once had a first edition of E. A. Robinson's The Man Who Died Twice inscribed by one of the Elliot Roosevelt cousins of Eleanor and Franklin. His first name is vaguely trying to make its way out of the labyrinth of my muddled brain but has yet to succeed. It seems he was an acoholic ne'er-do-well with a taste for literature.

More to the point, your post reminded me that I have long promised myself to Google "Elizabeth Beckwith" whose name appears on the bookplates of several of my books. The name is a common one in the Connecticut blue blood family so I can't say for sure just yet. The publication date of the books, however, and the literary titles, suggest that they might have belonged to the young Elizabeth Beckwith (later Beckwith MacKie) who wrote "My Friend Scott Fitzgerald".

Oh, and do I remember correctly? Isn't 'lavabo oculos' the corporate logo for Johnson & Johnson?

I think I'll go arrange my Pre-Raphaelite bookmarks now.