To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl
Hartley Coleridge
1796 to 1849
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Like a loose island on the wide expanse,
Unconscious ______ on the fickle sea,
Herself her all, she lives ______ privacy;
Her waking life as lonely as a trance,
Doom’d to behold the universal dance,
And never hear the ______ which expounds
The solemn step, coy slide, the merry bounds.
The vague, mute language of the countenance.
In vain ______ her I smooth my antic rhyme;
She cannot hear it. All her little being
Concentrated in her solitary seeing—
______ can she know of beauty or sublime?
And yet ______ she looks so calm and good,
God must be ______ her in her solitude!