_Ad verbum Dei sanatur caecus._ Marc. x. 52.
Christe, loquutus eras, o sacra licentia verbi:
Jamque novus caeci fluxit in ora dies.
Jam credo, Nemo[54] est, sicut Tu, Christe, loquutus:
Auribus? immo oculis, Christe, loquutus eras.
_The blind cured by the word of our Saviour._
Thou spak'st the word--Thy word's a law;
Thou spak'st, and straight the blind man saw.
To speak and make the blind to see,
Was never man, Lord, spake like Thee.
To speak thus was to speak, say I,
Not to his eare, but to his eye. CR.