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TO HELEN KELLER, by                    
First Line: You who never saw the sun-flamed hills
Last Line: Be evermore your slave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Youth; Nightmares


You who never saw the sun-flamed hills,
The morning's opaled skies,
The valley in the moonlight bathed,
The evening's purple dyes;
Who never heard the mocker flood
The southern night with song,
The music of the vesper bells
Drift mist-wreathed streams along;
And yet who came in darkness on
The beauty few have found,
In silence to the knowledge that
The spheres are music-bound --
You who saw the great injustice done,
As only soul-eyes can,
And cried against the Strong and Great,
And for the Underman:
To you who shamed our cowardice,
Who nerved us to be brave,
The Angel of our childhood's dreams
Be evermore your Slave.





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