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