Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, APPEAL OF THE BLIND, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY


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First Line: Ye see the glorious sun
Last Line: And cause the blind to see?
Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped


TO BE SUNG AT AN EXHIBITION OF BLIND BOYS.

YE see the glorious sun,
The varied landscape light,
The moon with all her starry train,
Illume the arch of night,
Bright tree, and bird, and flower
That deck your joyous way,
The face of kindred and of friend,
More fair, more dear than they.

For us there glows no sun,
No green and flowery lawn;
Our rayless darkness hath no moon.
Our midnight knows no dawn;
The parent's pitying eye,
To all our sorrows true,
The brother's brow, the sister's smile,
Have never met our view.

Still there's a lamp within,
That knowledge fain would light,
And pure Religion's radiance touch
With beams for ever bright,
Say, shall it rise to share
Such radiance full and free?
And will ye keep a Saviour's charge
And cause the blind to see?





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