Social Commentaries
Poetic Aphorisms: Poverty and Blindness
From Translations
Social Commentaries
A blind man is a poor man, and blind a poor man is;
For the former seeth no man, and the latter no man sees.
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Codex Note
Translated by Longfellow from Friedrich von Logau, German
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MLA
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Poetic Aphorisms: Poverty and Blindness.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/longfellow/374/.
Chicago
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Poetic Aphorisms: Poverty and Blindness.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/longfellow/374/.
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