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Poems on several occasions

By H. Carey. The Third Edition, much enlarged

Carey, Henry (1687?-1743)

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TO Mr. JOHN STANLEY,

The wonderful Blind Youth, Organist of St. Andrew's Holborn.

Why do mistaken Mortals call thee blind?
Thine Eyes are but inverted to thy Mind;
There thou explor'st Ideas unconfin'd,
Whilst we, who look before, are dark behind.