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THE CONSECRATION OF BRAILLE by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I WAS A BARREN TREE BEFORE
Last Line: IN THE DARKNESS OF THE BLIND.
Subject(s): BLINDNESS; NIGHT; SOLITUDE; TREES; VISUALLY HANDICAPPED; BEDTIME; LONELINESS;
I WAS a barren tree before,
I blew a quenched coal,
I could not, on their midnight shore,
The lonely blind console.

A moment, lend your hand, I bring
My sheaf for you to bind,
And you can teach my words to sing
In the darkness of the blind.



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