Halts by me that footfall:

Is my gloom, after all,

Shade of His hand, outstretched caressingly?

“Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest,

I am He Whom thou seekest!

Thou dravest love from thee, who dravest Me.”

THE DREAD OF HEIGHT

By Francis Thompson

If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say;

We see: your sin remaineth.”—John ix. 41