1. What is this light you speak of
I have never known with my sight

2. How can the seeing feel delight
Can you explain this to one born blind

3. Often you tell me of what you see
What your eyes behold and witness

4. You claim the sun is glowing
Like an ember burning bright

5. I do not doubt the radiance of its presence
Yet what I do not know at all

6. Is how there can be by it a dawn
Then darkness blanketing night

7. Morn for me and evening too
Come whene’er I rest or play

8. If I never slept, my days
Would be one endless day

9. Much have I heard you speak of
Rains you liberally bestow

10. A gift I was not given
So I lose not what I never know

11. Grief for what cannot be mine
Denies me even simple joys

12. I'm like a king whose minstrels voice songs
Though to my ears he makes no noise