The world I live in / by Helen Keller.

  • Keller, Helen, 1880-1968.
Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The world I live in / by Helen Keller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Magical beams glow athwart the darkness; Paths of beauty wind through his black world To another world of light, Where no veil of sense shuts him out from Paradise. Out of the uncharted, unthinkable dark we came. And in a little time we shall return again Into the vast, unanswering dark. O Dark ! thou blessed, quiet Dark! To the lone exile who must dwell with thee Thou art benign and friendly ; From the harsh world thou dost shut him in ; To him thou whisperest the secrets of the wondrous night; Upon him thou bestowest regions wide and boundless as his spirit; Thou givest a glory to all humble things ; With thy hovering pinions thou coverest all unlovely objects ; Under thy brooding wings there is peace.