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56 And there be is in face of Heaven.

How rapidly the Child is driven!

The fourth part of a mile I ween

He thus had gone, ere he was seen

By any human eye.

But when he was first seen, oh me

What shrieking and what misery!

For many saw; among the rest

His Mother, she who loved him best,

She saw her poor blind Boy.

But for the Child, the sightless Boy,

It is the triumph of his joy!

The bravest Traveller in balloon,

Mounting as if to reach the moon,

Was never half so bless'd.

And let him, let him go his way,

Alone, and innocent, and gay!

For, if good Angels love to wait

On the forlorn unfortunate,

This Child will take no harm.