A Letter in the Dark
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
Love, being blind, I loved you. When light's shed
On these eyes and kindred think me dead
I shall love you better. Blind, I knew you
By the way that grief and gloom flowed to you.
One took comfort from you and one gave it;
Then the blind importuned you to save it
From the outer dark.
Yet is there fear
For the man that you have loved, my Dear?
Nay, no fear on earth — no doubting, even —
Sure of yours, I trust the heart of heaven.
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