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You think it is a sorry thing	A
That I am blind Your pitying	A
Is welcome to me yet indeed	B
I think I have but little need	B
Of it Though you may marvel much	C
That we who see by sense of touch	C
And taste and hearing see things you	D
May never look upon and true	D
Is it that even in the scent	E
Of blossoms we find something meant	E
No eyes have in their faces read	F
Or wept to see interpreted	G
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And you might think it strange if now	H
I told you you were smiling How	H
Do I know that I hold your hand	I
Its language I can understand	I
Give both to me and I will show	J
You many other things I know	J
Listen We never met before	K
Till now Well you are something lower	L
Than five feet eight in height and you	D
Are slender and your eyes are blue	D
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Your mother's eyes your mother's hair	M
Your mother's likeness everywhere	M
Save in your walk and that is quite	N
Your father's nervous Am I right	N
I thought so And you used to sing	A
But have neglected everything	A
Of vocalism though you may	O
Still thrum on the guitar and play	O
A little on the violin	P
I know that by the callous in	P
The finger tips of your left hand	I
And by the bye though nature planned	I
You as most men you are I see	Q
' Left handed ' too the mystery	Q
Is clear though your right arm has been	P
Broken to 'break' the left one in	P
And so you see though blind of sight	N
I still have ways of seeing quite	N
Too well for you to sympathize	R
Excessively with your good eyes	R
Though once perhaps to be sincere	S
Within the whole asylum here	T
From cupola to basement hall	U
I was the blindest of them all	U
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Let us move further down the walk	V
The man here waiting hears my talk	V
And is disturbed besides he may	O
Not be quite friendly anyway	O
In fact this will be far enough	W
Sit down the man just spoken of	X
Was once a friend of mine He came	Y
For treatment here from Burlingame	Y
A rich though brilliant student there	M
Who read his eyes out of repair	M
And groped his way up here where we	Q
Became acquainted and where he	Q
Met one of our girl teachers and	Z
If you 'll believe me asked her hand	I
In marriage though the girl was blind	A2
As I am and the girl declined	A2
Odd wasn't it Look you can see	Q
Him waiting there Fine isn't he	Q
And handsome eloquently wide	B2
And high of brow and dignified	B2
With every outward grace his sight	N
Restored to him clear and bright	N
As day dawn waiting waiting still	C2
For the blind girl that never will	C2
Be wife of his How do I know	J
You will recall a while ago	J
I told you he and I were friends	D2
In all that friendship comprehends	D2
I was his friend I swear why now	H
Remembering his love and how	H
His confidence was all my own	E2
I hear in fancy the low tone	E2
Of his deep voice so full of pride	B2
And passion yet so pacified	B2
With his affliction that it seems	F2
An utterance sent out of dreams	F2
Of saddest melody withal	C2
So sorrowfully musical	C2
It was and is must ever be	Q
But I'm digressing pardon me	Q
I knew not anything of love	X
In those days but of that above	X
All worldly passion for my art	G2
Music and that with all my heart	G2
And soul blent in a love too great	H2
For words of mine to estimate	I2
And though among my pupils she	Q
Whose love my friend sought came to me	Q
I only knew her fingers' touch	C
Because they loitered overmuch	C
In simple scales and needs must be	Q
Untangled almost constantly	Q
But she was bright in other ways	J2
And quick of thought with ready plays	J2
Of wit and with a voice as sweet	K2
To listen to as one might meet	K2
In any oratorio	J
And once I gravely told her so	J
And at my words her limpid tone	E2
Of laughter faltered to a moan	E2
And fell from that into a sigh	L2
That quavered all so wearily	Q
That I without the tear that crept	M2
Between the keys had known she wept	M2
And yet the hand I reached for then	N2
She caught away and laughed again	N2
And when that evening I strolled	O2
With my old friend I smiling told	O2
Him I believed the girl and he	Q
Were matched and mated perfectly	Q
He was so noble she so fair	M
Of speech and womanly of air	M
He strong ambitious she as mild	P2
And artless even as a child	P2
And with a nature I was sure	Q2
As worshipful as it was pure	Q2
And sweet and brimmed with tender things	R2
Beyond his rarest fancyings	R2
He stopped me solemnly He knew	D
He said how good and just and true	D
Was all I said of her but as	R2
For his own virtues let them pass	R2
Since they were nothing to the one	S2
That he had set his heart upon	T2
For but that morning she had turned	U2
Forever from him Then I learned	U2
That for a month he had delayed	V2
His going from us with no aid	V2
Of hope to hold him meeting still	C2
Her ever firm denial till	C2
Not even in his new found sight	N
He found one comfort or delight	N
And as his voice broke there I felt	W2
The brother heart within me melt	W2
In warm compassion for his own	E2
That throbbed so utterly alone	E2
And then a sudden fancy hit	X2
Along my brain and coupling it	X2
With a belief that I indeed	B
Might help my friend in his great need	B
I warmly said that I would go	J
Myself if he decided so	J
And see her for him that I knew	D
My pleadings would be listened to	D
Most seriously and that she	Q
Should love him listening to me	Q
Go bless me And that was the last	Y2
The last time his warm hand shut fast	Y2
Within my own so empty since	R2
That the remembered finger prints	R2
I 've kissed a thousand times and wet	Z2
Them with the tears of all regret	Z2
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I know not how to rightly tell	C2
How fared my quest and what befell	C2
Me coming in the presence of	X
That blind girl and her blinder love	X
I know but little else than that	A3
Above the chair in which she sat	A3
I leant reached for and found her hand	I
And held it for a moment and	Z
Took up the other held them both	B3
As might a friend I will take oath	B3
Spoke leisurely as might a man	C3
Praying for no thing other than	C3
He thinks Heaven's justice She was blind	A2
I said and yet a noble mind	A2
Most truly loved her one whose fond	D3
Clear sighted vision looked beyond	D3
The bounds of her infirmity	Q
And saw the woman perfectly	Q
Modeled and wrought out pure and true	D
And lovable She quailed and drew	D
Her hands away but closer still	C2
I caught them 'Rack me as you will '	-
She cried out sharply 'Call me 'blind'	Q
Love ever is I am resigned	Q
Blind is your friend as blind as he	Q
Am I but blindest of the three	Q
Yea blind as death you will not see	Q
My love for you is killing me '	-
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There is a memory that may	O
Not ever wholly fade away	O
From out my heart so bright and fair	M
The light of it still glimmers there	M
Why it did seem as though my sight	Q
Flamed back upon me dazzling white	Q
And godlike Not one other word	Q
Of hers I listened for or heard	Q
But I saw songs sung in her eyes	R2
Till they did swoon up drowning wise	R2
As my mad lips did strike her own	E2
And we flashed one and one alone	E2
Ah was it treachery for me	Q
To kneel there drinking eagerly	Q
That torrent flow of words that swept	Q
Out laughingly the tears she wept	Q
Sweet words O sweeter far maybe	Q
Than light of day to those that see	Q
God knows who did the rapture send	Q
To me and hold it from my friend	Q
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And we were married half a year	S
Ago and he is waiting here	T
Heedless of that or anything	A
But just that he is lingering	A
To say good bye to her and bow	H
As you may see him doing now	H
For there's her footstep in the hall	C2
God bless her help him save us all	C2