The Blind Boy

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"I have no master," said the Blind Boy, "My mother, 'Dame Venus' they do call; Cowled in this hood she sent me begging For whate'er in pity may befall. "Hard was her visage, me adjuring, - 'Have no fond mercy on the kind! Here be sharp arrows, bunched in quiver, Draw close ere striking - thou art blind.' "So stand I here, my woes entreating, In this dark alley, lest the Moon Point with her sparkling my barbed armoury Shine on my silver-lacd shoon. "Oh, sir, unkind this Dame to me-ward; Of the salt billow was her birth ... In your sweet charity draw nearer The saddest rogue on Earth!"

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