{
 "id": "george-macdonald/blind-bartimeus",
 "title": "Blind Bartimeus",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "George MacDonald",
 "poet_slug": "george-macdonald",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Disciple and Other Poems",
 "book_slug": "the-disciple-and-other-poems",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": 11,
 "container": null,
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1867,
  "venue": "The Disciple and Other Poems (1867)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/discipleandothe02macdgoog",
   "https://archive.org/metadata/discipleandothe02macdgoog"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/george-macdonald_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1953",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8949",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9543",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9984",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10578",
   "https://archive.org/details/bookofstrifeinfo00macd",
   "https://archive.org/details/discipleandothe02macdgoog",
   "https://archive.org/details/hiddenlifeandoth00macduoft",
   "https://archive.org/details/discipleandothe02macdgoog",
   "https://archive.org/details/rampolli00macd",
   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102955776",
   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011821572"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 24,
  "n_stanzas": 4,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 46,
  "max_indent": 2
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "As Jesus went into Jericho town,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "’Twas darkness all, from toe to crown,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "About blind Bartimeus.",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "He said, “My eyes are more than dim,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "They are no use for seeing him:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "No matter⁠—he can see us!”",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Cry out, cry out, blind brother⁠—cry;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Let not salvation dear go by.⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Have mercy, Son of David.”",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Though they were blind, they both could hear⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "They heard, and cried, and he drew near;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And so the blind were saved.",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O Jesus Christ, I am very blind;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Nothing comes through into my mind;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis well I am not dumb:",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Although I see thee not, nor hear,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I cry because thou may’st be near:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O son of Mary, come!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I hear it through the all things blind:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Is it thy voice, so gentle and kind⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“Poor eyes, no more be dim”?",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "A hand is laid upon mine eyes;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I hear, and hearken, see, and rise;⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis He! I follow him!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ]
 ]
}