Gift of Sight
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by Robert Graves
I had long known the diverse tastes of the wood,
Each leaf, each bark, rank earth from every hollow;
Knew the smells of bird’s breath and of bat’s wing;
Yet sight I lacked: until you stole upon me,
Touching my eyelids with light finger-tips.
The trees blazed out, their colours whirled together,
Nor ever before had I been aware of sky.
From “Erotic Poems,” selected and edited by Peter Washington (Everyman’s Library/Alfred A. Knopf: 286 pp., $10.95)
