TO BE SUNG AT AN EXHIBITION OF BLIND BOYS. YE see the glorious sun, The varied landscape light, The moon with all her starry train, Illume the arch of night, Bright tree, and bird, and flower That deck your joyous way, The face of kindred and of friend, More fair, more dear than they. For us there glows no sun, No green and flowery lawn; Our rayless darkness hath no moon. Our midnight knows no dawn; The parent's pitying eye, To all our sorrows true, The brother's brow, the sister's smile, Have never met our view. Still there's a lamp within, That knowledge fain would light, And pure Religion's radiance touch With beams for ever bright, Say, shall it rise to share Such radiance full and free? And will ye keep a Saviour's charge And cause the blind to see? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE TO A HUMAN HEART by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD NOTHING WILL DIE by ALFRED TENNYSON BALLAD OF PLAGIARY by JAMES BRANCH CABELL BEYOND THE WAR by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN ON SEEING A PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN MARY; A FRAGMENT by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON |