Question

Paraphrase the following poem :

I stand alone through each long day, Upon these pavers; cannot see The wares spread out upon this tray – For God has taken sight from me! Many a time I’ve cursed the night When I was born. My peering eyes Have sought for but one rag of light To pierce the darkness. When the skies Rain down their first sweet April showers On building branches; when the morn Is sweet with breath of spring and flowers, I’ve cursed the night when I was born.​

Answer 1

I stand alone through each long day, Upon these pavers; cannot see The wares spread out upon this tray – For God has taken sight from me! Many a time I’ve cursed the night When I was born. My peering eyes Have sought for but one rag of light To pierce the darkness. When the skies Rain down their first sweet April showers On building branches; when the morn Is sweet with breath of spring and flowers, I’ve cursed the night when I was born.

Answer 2

Answer:

I STAND alone through each long day

Upon these pavers; cannot see

The wares spread out upon this tray

—For God has taken sight from me!

 

Many a time I've cursed the night        

When I was born. My peering eyes

Have sought for but one ray of light

To pierce the darkness. When the skies

 

Rain down their first sweet April showers

On budding branches; when the morn  

Is sweet with breath of spring and flowers,

I've cursed the night when I was born.

 

But now I thank God, and am glad

For what I cannot see this day

—The young men cripples, old, and sad,  

With faces burnt and torn away;

 

Or those who, growing rich and old,

Have battened on the slaughter,

Whose faces, gorged with blood and gold,

Are creased in purple llaughter!