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1850–1894

THE CONSECRATION OF BRAILLE

Robert Louis Stevenson

I was a barren tree before, I blew a quenchèd coal, I could not, on their midnight shore, The lonely blind console.

A moment, lend your hand, I bring My sheaf for you to bind, And you can teach my words to sing In the darkness of the blind.

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