Robert Herrick: Being Once Blind, His Request to Biancha.

BEING ONCE BLIND, HIS REQUEST TO BIANCHA.
by Robert Herrick

WHEN age or chance has made me blind,
So that the path I cannot find,
And when my falls and stumblings are
More than the stones i' th' street by far,
Go thou afore, and I shall well
Follow thy perfumes by the smell ;
Or be my guide, and I shall be
Led by some light that flows from thee.
Thus held or led by thee, I shall
In ways confus'd nor slip or fall.

Juan Antonio Escalante.
An Angel Awakens the Prophet Elijah, 1667.
From CGFA.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 38.

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