Blind Sorrow + 

“My life is drear; walking I labour sore; + 

The heart in me is heavy as a stone; + 

And of my sorrows this the icy core: + 

Life is so wide, and I am all alone!” + 

Thou did’st walk so, with heaven-born eyes down bent + 

Upon the earth’s gold-rosy, radiant clay, + 

That thou had’st seen no star in all God’s tent + 

Had not thy tears made pools first on the way. + 

Ah, little knowest thou the tender care + 

In a love-plenteous cloak around thee thrown! + 

Full many a dim-seen, saving mountain-stair + 

Toiling thou climb’st⁠—but not one step alone! + 

Lift but thy languid head and see thy guide; + 

Let thy steps go in his, nor choose thine own; + 

Then soon wilt thou, thine eyes with wonder wide, + 

Cry, “Now I know I never was alone!” + 