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TO A BLIND BABE, SLEEPING by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: ARE THY DREAMS DARK? OR IS THE LIGHT
Last Line: A KINDLING RADIANCE APPEARS.
Subject(s): BABIES; BLINDNESS; SLEEP; INFANTS; VISUALLY HANDICAPPED;

Are thy dreams dark? or is the light
Alone denied thy waking sight,
While softer stars their vigils keep
Within thy hemisphere of sleep?

Yea: haply, as noon-blinded beams
Awake in darkness, o'er thy dreams
The pity that begets our tears,
A kindling radiance appears.



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