And in the vacancies discerned
With spiritual sense the fullness of life;
And the gates of Day stood wide。
I am shaken with gladness;
My limbs tremble with joy;
My heart and the earth
Tremble with happiness;
The ecstasy of life
Is abroad in the world。
Knowledge hath uncurtained heaven;
On the uttermost shores of darkness there is light;
Midnight hath sent forth a beam!
The blind that stumbled in darkness without light
Behold a new day!
In the obscurity gleams the star of Thought;
Imagination hath a luminous eye;
And the mind hath a glorious vision。
III
〃The man is blind。 What is life to him?
A closed book held up against a sightless face。
Would that he could see
Yon beauteous star; and know
For one transcendent moment
The palpitating joy of sight!〃
All sight is of the soul。
Behold it in the upward flight
Of the unfettered spirit! Hast thou seen
Thought bloom in the blind child"s face?
Hast thou seen his mind grow;
Like the running dawn; to grasp
The vision of the Master?
It was the miracle of inward sight。
In the realms of wonderment where I dwell
I explore life with my hands;
I recognize; and am happy;
My fingers are ever athirst for the earth;
And drink up its wonders with delight;
Draw out earth"s dear delights;
My feet are charged with the murmur;
The throb; of all things that grow。
This is touch; this quivering;
This flame; this ether;
This glad rush of blood;
This daylight in my heart;
This glow of sympathy in my palms!
Thou blind; loving; all…prying touch;
Thou openest the book of life to me。
The noiseless little noises of the earth
e with softest rustle;
The shy; sweet feet of life;
The silky mutter of moth…wings
Against my restraining palm;
The strident beat of insect…wings;
The silvery trickle of water;
Little breezes busy in the summer grass;
The music of crisp; whisking; scurrying leaves;
The swirling; wind…swept; frost…tinted leaves;
The crystal splash of summer rain;
Saturate with the odours of the sod。
With alert fingers I listen
To the showers of sound
That the wind shakes from the forest。
I bathe in the liquid shade
Under the pines; where the air hangs cool
After the shower is done。
My saucy little friend the squirrel
Flips my shoulder with his tail;
Leaps from leafy billow to leafy billow;
Returns to eat his breakfast from my hand。
Between us there is glad sympathy;
He gambols; my pulses dance;
I am exultingly full of the joy of life!
Have not my fingers split the sand
On the sun…flooded beach?
Hath not my naked body felt the water sing
When the sea hath enveloped it
With rippling music?
Have I not felt
The lilt of waves beneath my boat;
The flap of sail;
The strain of mast;
The wild rush
Of the lightning…charged winds?
Have I not smelt the swift; keen flight
Of winged odours before the tempest?
Here is joy awake; aglow;
Here is the tumult of the heart。
My hands evoke sight and sound out of feeling;
Intershifting the senses endlessly;
Linking motion with sight; odour with sound
They give colour to the honeyed breeze;
The measure and passion of a symphony
To the beat and quiver of unseen wings。
In the secrets of earth and sun and air
My fingers are wise;
They snatch light out of darkness;
They thrill to harmonies breathed in silence。
I walked in the stillness of the night;
And my soul uttered her gladness。
O Night; still; odorous Night; I love thee!
O wide; spacious Night; I love thee!
O steadfast; glorious Night!
I touch thee with my hands;
I lean against thy strength;
I am forted。
O fathomless; soothing Night!
Thou art a balm to my restless spirit;
I nestle gratefully in thy bosom;
Dark; gracious mother!
Like a dove; I rest in thy bosom。
_Out of the uncharted; unthinkable dark we came;
And in a little time we shall return again
Into the vast; unanswering dark。_
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Transcriber"s Note:
Page 223; 〃similies〃 changed to 〃similes〃 (Other similes seemed)
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