[lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Lighting Fools: Reflections on an Image in Macbeth's "Tomorrow" Soliloquy

  • From: Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Paul)
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: 03 Feb 2005 13:35:53 PST

On His Blindness

When I consider how my light is spent    
  E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,        
  And that one Talent which is death to hide,    
  Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent       
To serve therewith my Maker, and present         
  My true account, least he returning chide,     
  Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd,       
  I fondly ask; But patience to prevent  
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need     
  Either man's work or his own gifts, who best    
  Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State    
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed        
  And post o're Land and Ocean without rest:     
  They also serve who only stand and waite.      
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Robert Paul
The Reed Institute
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