SELECTED VERSES.
'■MILTON'S SOLILOQUY ON HIS OWN JJLINDNESB." I am old and blind ; Men point to me as smitten by God's frown. Dejected and deserted of my kindYet I am not cast down. I am weak—yet strong; I murmur not that I no longer sco ; Poor, old and helpless—l the more belong, Father supremo, to Thee. All merciful one; When men are farthest, then art Thou most near; When friends pass by me and my weakness shun — Thy chariot I hear. It is nothing now ; Since Heaven has opened to my sightless eyes; Since airs from Paradise refresh my brow— The world io darkness lies. I seem to stand Trembling where the foot of mortal ne'er Inth been — Eapt in a radiance from that sinless land, That eye hath never seen. Visions come and go ; Shapes of resplendent beauty round me throng; From angel lips I scein to hear the flow Of soft and holy song. In a purer clime, My being fills with rapture; thought over thought Rolls in upon my spirit —visions strange, sublime, Come over me unsought. Give me now my lyre— I feel the etirring of a gift Divine; I feel the glow of an unearthly fire, Lit by no skill of mine.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7503, 4 July 1903, Page 4
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207SELECTED VERSES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7503, 4 July 1903, Page 4
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