Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Blind Louise
By George W. Dewey (18181896)S
Foresaw the dreary night
That soon would fall, without a star,
Upon her fading sight;
But prayed each day might bring
A beauty to her waning eyes,
The loveliness of Spring!
Perpetually enclose
Sad memories of a leafless world,
A spectral realm of snows.
An evergreen to shine
Within her heart, as summer leaves
Its memory on the pine.
O’erhung his eastern towers,
And shed his benediction on
A world of May-time flowers,
In her accustomed place,
A midnight in her sightless eyes,
And morn upon her face!