The Face of Life
An Adaptation.
An Adaptation.
An Adaptation.
Life cried to Youth, “I bear the cryptic key:I grant you two desires, but only two.What gifts have I to crown and comfort you?”Youth answered, “I am blind and I would see;Open my eyes and let me look on thee.”‘Twas done: he saw the face of Life, and thenCried brokenly, “Now make me blind again!”
Life cried to Youth, “I bear the cryptic key:I grant you two desires, but only two.What gifts have I to crown and comfort you?”Youth answered, “I am blind and I would see;Open my eyes and let me look on thee.”‘Twas done: he saw the face of Life, and thenCried brokenly, “Now make me blind again!”
Life cried to Youth, “I bear the cryptic key:I grant you two desires, but only two.What gifts have I to crown and comfort you?”Youth answered, “I am blind and I would see;Open my eyes and let me look on thee.”‘Twas done: he saw the face of Life, and thenCried brokenly, “Now make me blind again!”
Life cried to Youth, “I bear the cryptic key:
I grant you two desires, but only two.
What gifts have I to crown and comfort you?”
Youth answered, “I am blind and I would see;
Open my eyes and let me look on thee.”
‘Twas done: he saw the face of Life, and then
Cried brokenly, “Now make me blind again!”