"I've seen a dying eye"

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XV.

I've seen a dying eye
Run round and round a room
In search of something, as it seemed,
Then cloudier become ;
And then, obscure with fog,
And then be soldered down,
Without disclosing what it be,
'T were blessed to have seen.

 
from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)


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