<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459790" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: On His Deafness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Speak up! No need to shout – I’m not t h a t deaf..! ’ <br>-do I have any real right to complain <br>if years of partial listening have brought <br>now partial hearing in their fateful train? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Milton – isn’t it curious: the blind <br>evoke our instant feelings of compassion; <br>while deafness calls some idiot state to mind – <br>evoking, far from pity – irritation! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those saintly mystics would just praise their God <br>that He, to speed their simple saintliness, <br>brings outer deafness, so that inner Word <br>in cloistered silence brings a greater bliss.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So may I bear affliction in good part: <br>and hear a greater, louder word in heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459790" data-title="Sonnet: On His Deafness de Michael Shepherd" data-description="‘Speak up! No need to shout – I’m not t h a t deaf..! ’ -do I have any real right to complain if years of partial listening have brought now partial hearing in their fateful train? O Milton – isn’t it curious: the blind evoke our..."></div> </div> </div>

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