THE BEGGAR'S QUATRAIN.

_("Aveugle comme Homère.")_

[Improvised at the Café de Paris.]

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.

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