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104 THE SECOND SENSE RESTORED AND LOST.

While with a fond inquisitive desire,

My quivering lips were ready to enquire;
And willing, too, were skilful men to see
The change their kind attention wrought in me,'
Thus soon I learn'd the nature and the name

Of every object fair that near my notice came.

END OF PART SECOND.

BLINDNESS:

OR,

THE SECOND SENSE RESTORED AND LOST.

PART III.

ARGUMENT TO PART THIRD.

"All dull and comfortless!

Where are those various objects that but now
Employed my busy eyes?"-MILTON.

Retiring to rest-Description of morning-Description of noonDescription of the dawn of evening—The influence of Nature on the soul-Enthusiasm-The Sabbath - Mountains of the North-Their sublimity and grandeur-View from their loftiest summits-A dream among the mountains — The eagle— Reflections on night-City at midnight-The Waits-Study of the sky-On Halley's comet-On the annular eclipse Wanderings by the torrent-Niagara-Reflection on the ocean -The song of Neptune-Sleep-Return of Blindness-Dreadful suffering at its unlooked-for return-Blindness now compared after having seen the glories of Nature, with that Blindness which has not-The agonizing difference-Farewell to LightConclusion.

BLINDNESS:

OR,

THE SECOND SENSE RESTORED AND LOST.

PART III.

'Twas Night! On Earth no soul retired to rest
With more o'erwhelming pleasure purely blest,
Than was that newly-waken'd, that divine,
Undying portion of this frame of mine!

For all the varying day had wander'd by,
Before the rapture of my marvelling eye,-
Dress'd in its summer charms, while every hour
Diffused o'er Earth more majesty and power!

First, Morning came wrapt up in robes of grey, Brushing the shades of lingering Night away;

ARGUMENT TO PART THIRD.

"All dull and comfortless!

Where are those various objects that but now
Employed my busy eyes?"-MILTON.

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Retiring to rest-Description of morning-Description of noonDescription of the dawn of evening—The influence of Nature on the soul-Enthusiasm-The Sabbath - Mountains of the North―Their sublimity and grandeur-View from their loftiest summits A dream among the mountains- -The eagleReflections on night-City at midnight-The Waits-Study of the sky-On Halley's comet-On the annular eclipse-— Wanderings by the torrent-Niagara― Reflection on the ocean -The song of Neptune-Sleep-Return of Blindness-Dreadful suffering at its unlooked-for return-Blindness now compared after having seen the glories of Nature, with that Blindness which has not-The agonizing difference-Farewell to Light— Conclusion.

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