Sonnet: Eternal Light

As long as there was some light, I could see; And when the lights went out, I became blind, Like a mole; the window-pane did I find! The light came through, I regained acuity. The blind can’t see even in broad daylight, But they discern what men with eyes cannot! The latter struggle more than what blind ought! Men cannot see at night without moonlight. In light or darkness, who helps man to see? ’Tis Maker-God, the true light of the world; Man’s inward eye can see his destiny; A soul in sin, to divine light is cold. God is Light in light and in darkness; No man is blind, his soul in God’s harness!