Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SIGHT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON



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First Line: By the lamplit stall I loitered, feasting my eyes
Last Line: I heard the tapping of a blind man's stick.
Subject(s): Sight


By the lamplit stall I loitered, feasting my eyes
On colours ripe and rich for the heart's desire --
Tomatoes, redder than Krakatoa's fire,
Oranges like old sunsets over Tyre,
And apples golden-green as the glades of Paradise.

And as I lingered, lost in divine delight,
My heart thanked God for the goodly gift of sight
And all youth's lively senses keen and quick...
When suddenly, behind me in the night,
I heard the tapping of a blind man's stick.





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