Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature: An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891. Vols. VIVIII: Literature of the Republic, Part III., 18351860 | | Blind Louise | By George W. Dewey (18181896) |
| [Born in Baltimore, Md., 1818. Died, 1896. From Griswolds Poets and Poetry of America. 1842.] |
| SHE knew that she was growing blind | |
Foresaw the dreary night | |
That soon would fall, without a star, | |
Upon her fading sight; | |
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Yet never did she make complaint, | 5 |
But prayed each day might bring | |
A beauty to her waning eyes, | |
The loveliness of Spring! | |
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She dreaded that eclipse which might | |
Perpetually enclose | 10 |
Sad memories of a leafless world, | |
A spectral realm of snows. | |
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Shed rather that the verdure left | |
An evergreen to shine | |
Within her heart, as summer leaves | 15 |
Its memory on the pine. | |
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She had her wish: for when the sun | |
Oerhung his eastern towers, | |
And shed his benediction on | |
A world of May-time flowers, | 20 |
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We found her seated, as of old, | |
In her accustomed place, | |
A midnight in her sightless eyes, | |
And morn upon her face! | | |
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