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388.

[Let him alone, the blindfold guide]

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. —xv. 14.

Let him alone, the blindfold guide,
Stir not the hornet's nest,
Or rashly tempt the furious pride
Of a revengeful priest:
His ignorance you cannot heal,
His envious wrath avert,
Or help the stubbornness of will,
The blindness of his heart.