ED.

Blind sight, dead life, poor mortal-living ghost.

[AZ] Compare The Waggoner, vol. iii. p. 77—

ED.

In silence deeper far than that of deepest noon!

[BA] Compare Resolution and Independence, stanza xiii. (vol. ii. p. 319)—

Ere he replied, a flash of mild surprise

Broke from the sable orbs of his yet-vivid eyes.

[BB] Compare Burns's Epistle to William Simpson, Ochiltree

ED.