Testimony
by Katharine Lee Bates
I, who am deaf and blind,
I, lame and weak,
Listen and seek,
Follow and find;
Yet have no word to say
What I have found,
Clearer than sound,
Brighter than day;
Wings in the heavy clod,
Beauty in pain.
Even the chain
Bindeth to God.
Source:
Yellow Clover: A Book Of RemembranceCopyright 1922
E. P. Dutton & Company, New York