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Blinded!

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You that still have your sight,     Remember me!--     I risked my life, I lost my eyes,     That you might see.     Now in the dark I go,     That you have light.     Yours, all the joy of day,     I have but night.     Yours still, the faces dear,     The fields, the sky.     For me--ah me!--there's nought     But this black misery!     In this unending night,     I can but see     What once I saw, and fain     Would see again.     O, midnight of black pain!     Come, Comrade Death,     Come quick, and set me free,     And give me back my eyes again!         *            *            *            *            *     Nay then, Christ's vicar,     You who bear our pain,     Ours be it now to see     Your dark days lighted,     And your way made plain.

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