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The Beggar’s Quatrain
by [?]


(“Aveugle comme Homere.”)

Blind, as was Homer; as Belisarius, blind,
But one weak child to guide his vision dim.
The hand which dealt him bread, in pity kind–
He’ll never see; God sees it, though, for him.

Translated by H.L.C., “London Society.”