When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
A man who has lost his sight asks whether God exacts day-labour from a servant deprived of light, and murmurs the question before Patience can cut it off. Fourteen lines turning on the parable of the talents, written after Milton's blindness became total.
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- alludes to ↑ The Gospels
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