Sight
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
1878 to 1962
Track 1
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By the lamplit stall I loitered, feasting my eyes
And as I lingered, lost in divine delight,
I heard the tapping of a blind man's stick.
My heart thanked God for the goodly gift of sight
And apples golden-green as the glades of Paradise.
On colours ripe and rich for the heart's desire—
Oranges like old sunsets over Tyre,
And all youth's lively senses keen and quick...
Tomatoes, redder than Krakatoa's fire,
When suddenly, behind me in the night,
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