"No light, but rather darkness visible."

"That old man, as you say, who is blind and poor, or, to use your own words, 'blind, poor, and an outcast,' is a person who, on the contrary, is rich, and content with his lot, and far from being an ou…"

"And from the bliss of Eden brought no more But tears for such as there had lived before."

"Thrice happy men, to whom the Gods have given Such means of bliss!"

"Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Eev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine."