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"EYELESS, IN GAZA, AT THE MILL, WITH SLAVES"
"Milton's "Samson."
The wind is blind.
The earth sees sun and moon; the height
Is watch-tower to the dawn; the plain
Shines to the summer; visible light
Is scattered in the drops of rain.
The wind is blind.
The flashing billows are aware; / With open eyes the cities see; / Light leaves the ether, everywhere / Known to the homing bird and bee.
The wind is blind, / Is blind alone. How has he hurled / His ignorant lash, his aimless dart, / His eyeless rush upon the world, / Unseeing, to break his unknown heart!
The wind is blind, / And the sail traps him, and the mill / Captures him; and he cannot save / His swiftness and his desperate will / From those blind uses of the slave.