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Poem by Oliver Goldsmith


On a Beautiful Youth, Struck Blind by Lightning


Sure’t was by Providence design’d
	Rather in pity than in hate,
That he should be, like Cupid, blind,
	To save him from Narcissus’ fate.



Oliver Goldsmith


Oliver Goldsmith's other poems:
  1. Italy
  2. Answer to an Invitation to Pass the Christmas at Barton
  3. The Traveller
  4. From the Latin of Vida
  5. A Sonnet


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