“He groped through the cavern, blind to truth,” a metaphor for spiritual seeking; In Milton’s “Samson Agonistes,” the blinded hero “gropes in darkness”; “Groping for words, she found only silence,” a line of emotional restraint; Shakespeare’s King Lear: “I stumbled when I saw... / Full oft ’tis seen, / Our means secure us, and our mere defects / Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar, / The food of thy abused father’s wrath! / Might I but live to see thee in my touch, / I’d say I had eyes again”; “Groping through memory’s fog, he found one clear image”; The soul gropes toward grace, though night surround it.