Blind Man's Vigil

Blind Man's Vigil

The ballad is spoken by blind beggar, once a pirate, who’s only one left who knows where gold is buried at Muertos (Dead). Warning: uses anti-black racist language.

11 quatrains made up of rhyming couplets

John Masefield, poem,
Pamela Colman Smith, initial letter

The Green Sheaf, No. 7, p. 4

Pamela Colman Smith

[November] 1903

Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University Library, Museums, and Press

Public Domain

The Green Sheaf Digital Edition, Yellow Nineties 2.0, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities

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