...extinct, And all the various objects of delight Annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Oh ! dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! Oh ! first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over...

...see ; I, dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in. my...; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. 0 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day...

...а fóol, In power of others, never iu my own ; Scarce half I seem lo live, dead more than half. О eyes And hairy mane terrific, though lo thee Not noxious, but obedient at thy call. " N hope of day! О first created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all;"...

...sec ; I, dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wronj, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem lo live, dead more tiwn tali O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total...

...see ; I, dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own...noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first-created beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all...

...see ; I, dark in light, expos'd To doily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong. Within doors, or without, ef; thence hot-ascending steams And keen reflection pain. Deep to the root Of vegetation parch'd, hope of day! . O first created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over...

...that, " Dark in light , exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors and without ; still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own,...Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half." We turn with loathing from that relentless bigotry, which could thus neglect and despise the noblest,...

...light, exposed Within doors, or without, still a fool, To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Without all hope of day!...

...eyesight, they may be heard, under the smiting < cial retribution, as if dolefully exclaiming : — " Ob, dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon ! Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day I" How different, how opposite the position of those who have been bred and brought up...

...distressing of human life, and has been feelingly alluded to by a poet, who was himself deprived of sight. " O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably dark ; total eclipse, Wilhiml the hope of day 1 The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon When she deserts the night."...