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Quotation from On His Blindness (Sonnet XIX) by John Milton
“When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,”
On His Blindness (Sonnet XIX), Lines 1-2 (Poems (1673), ed. Thurber (1901))
The opening clause, in which light means both eyesight and the working life it made possible.
Citation: "When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide," — John Milton, On His Blindness (Sonnet XIX), Lines 1-2 (Poems (1673), ed. Thurber (1901)). (id on-his-blindness-q1)
Portrait: The Blind Milton, Thomas Uwins, CC0.
