| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920. |
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| Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. 1878– |
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| 96. Sight |
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| BY the lamplit stall I loitered, feasting my eyes | |
| On colours ripe and rich for the heart's desire— | |
| Tomatoes, redder than Krakatoa's fire, | |
| Oranges like old sunsets over Tyre, | |
| And apples golden-green as the glades of Paradise. | 5 |
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| And as I lingered, lost in divine delight, | |
| My heart thanked God for the goodly gift of sight | |
| And all youth's lively senses keen and quick... | |
| When suddenly, behind me in the night, | |
| I heard the tapping of a blind man's stick. | 10 |
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