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Standing aloof in giant ignorance, / Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades, / As one who sits ashore and longs perchance / To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.
So thou wast blind! -- but then the veil was rent, / For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live, / And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent, / And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive; / Ay on the shores of darkness there is light, / And precipices show untrodden green; / There is a budding morrow in midnight; / There is a triple sight in blindness keen:
Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befell / To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell.