Fanny's Error
by Frances Sargent Locke Osgood
Fanny shuts her smiling eyes,
Then, because she cannot see, --
Thoughtless simpleton! she cries,Ah! you can't see me!
Fanny's like the sinner vain,
Who with spirit shut and dim,
Thinks because he sees not Heaven,
Heaven cannot see him!
Source:
PoemsCopyright 1846