Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A BLIND NAZARENE, by EVELYN SCOTT


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TO A BLIND NAZARENE, by                    
First Line: Secure in blind and perfect night
Last Line: Something ruthless vision ought to mean.
Alternate Author Name(s): Metcalfe, John, Mrs.
Subject(s): Blindness; Jesus Christ; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Pain; Sin; Visually Handicapped; Suffering; Misery


Secure in blind and perfect night,
And freed from the distress of light,
As deep in inward darkness
I have often longed to be;
As an undivulged sea,
When, with no coast to hedge
Scarred silence, slipping gray,
The one breath, on isolation,
Sinks with the coral tendrils of the spray.

End me! I have thought.
Let my mind be still!
Carry me beyond a ravaging by sight,
Beyond an onslaught, made by things beheld,
On muted will.
If I were all my world,
The rays of morning stars would never lash my eyes,
To wake to agony and life a stolid breast.
Sun, crashing its amber on the blazed horizons,
Would stir in me no more than the reflection
On an unplumbed water
Of far, bright unrest.

Then you, with your virgin senses,
Seeing that which you have never seen,
Showed me, as you were sinless Jesus,
Knowing sin and suffering,
Something ruthless vision ought to mean.





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