...discovered " Treatise on Christian Doctrine." ' ' Cyriac, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of...argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ?...

...discovered " Treatise on Christian Doctrine." ' ' Cyriac , this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of...argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ?...

...beautiful sonnet on the loes of his sight : — " Cyriack, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of...moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman." From the decided republican principles which Cyriack Skinner was well known to have adopted, it is...

...cheerful hour, refrains. TO THE SAME (1655) CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of...argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask?...

...forget Milton, either as a poet or a patriot: " Cyriac, this three years' day, these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of...forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear, Of suu, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand...

...poet-priest of the waning New England dominant class: Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light...the year, Or man or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What...

...toward the poem and ultimately to his friend: Cyriack, this three years day these eyes, though clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light...argue not Against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask?...

...been no change in his external appearance: Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light...moon or star throughout the year, Or man or woman. In respect to what he has next to say, the poet dwells suspiciously long upon these details of his...

...about "this three years' day these eyes": Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idol orbs doth sight appear Of sun or moon or star through-out the year, Or man or woman. Against heavens hand or will, Yet I argue not Nor bate a lot of heart or hope, but still bear up And...

...as the anniversary of his blindness. The speaker's sense of alienation — of being set apart from "sun or moon or star throughout the year, / Or man or woman" — demands an acknowledgment that circumstance and the indifference of the world confines to a personal...