Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GABAEL, by ADRIEN MITHOUARD


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GABAEL, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone gabael of sichem, blind from birth
Last Line: Silent, the sunset tinged with blood the skies.
Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Faces; God; Jesus Christ; Visually Handicapped


LONE Gabael of Sichem, blind from birth,
Mused through the twilight's tang of flowers and earth,
But with his stony eyes saw not the shine
Of mountains in the sun's incarnadine.

Yet seeing not the light, the light he heard. . . .

Jesus drew nigh, and o'er men's shouts one word
Bade him to see. He felt a touch -- no more.

Voiceless and pale beside the grasses hoar
The beggar, unbeheld, then swiftly turned
In silence, and for him all beauty burned,

For eye to eye he gazed upon God's face.

And, knowing nought of sapphire fields in space,
Nor of the woods and brooks, nor of the light,
In Jesus he consumed his newborn sight,
And with his aged eyes, still virginal
Unto the day, looked through his spirit's thrall.

His sight leapt forward, fain to follow where
His Master led him; but the heightening blare
O'erwhelmed him when the concourse knew he saw.

Jesus, beneath the palms, passed on in awe
And Gabael, that he might only see
Christ's countenance in crystal purity,
Raising his wrinkled hands, put out his eyes.

Silent, the sunset tinged with blood the skies.





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