To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl
Hartley Coleridge
1796 to 1849
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Like a loose island on the wide expanse,
Unconscious on the fickle sea,
Herself her all, she lives privacy;
Her waking life as lonely as a trance,
Doom’d to behold the universal dance,
And never hear the which expounds
The solemn step, coy slide, the merry bounds.
The vague, mute language of the countenance.
In vain her I smooth my antic rhyme;
She cannot hear it. All her little being
Concentrated in her solitary seeing—
can she know of beauty or sublime?
And yet she looks so calm and good,
God must be her in her solitude!
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