While I was doubting for my vision quenched, 1903 Out of the flame refulgent that had quenched it Issued a breathing, that attentive made me, Saying: “While thou recoverest the sense Of seeing which in me thou hast consumed, ’Tis well that speaking thou shouldst compensate it. Begin then, and declare to what thy soul Is aimed, and count it for a certainty, Sight is in thee bewildered and not dead; Because the Lady, who through this divine Region conducteth thee, has in her look The power the hand of Ananias had.” 1904 I said: “As pleaseth her, or soon or late Let the cure come to eyes that portals were When she with fire I ever burn with entered. The Good, that gives contentment to this Court, The Alpha and Omega is of all 1905 The writing that love reads me low or loud.” The selfsame voice, that taken had from me The terror of the sudden dazzlement, To speak still farther put it in my thought;

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