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Upon the bridge the blind man stands alone, / Gray like a mist veiled monument he towers / As though of nameless realms the boundary stone / About which circle distant starry hours.
He seems the center around which stars glow / While all earth's ostentations surge below.
Immovably and silently he stands / Placed where the confused current ebbs and flows; / Past fathomless dark depths that he commands / A shallow generation drifting goes.