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The Light That Failed
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A celebrated novel of an artist confronting blindness, disappointed love, ambition, and the brutal demands of professional identity.
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The Light That Failed
Dick Held’s career as an artist is shaped by war, physical decline, and a love he cannot recover. Kipling explores pride, creative work, and the fear of losing the faculty that gives life meaning.
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The original English work was published in 1891 and the author died in 1936; the source edition must remain the original-language public-domain text without a modern translation.
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I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
If I were drowned in the deepest sea,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
I know whose tears would come down to me,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
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- 01Full text
- 02The Light that Failed
- 03by Rudyard Kipling
- 04CHAPTER VIII
- 05CHAPTER IX
- 06CHAPTER X
- 07CHAPTER XI
- 08CHAPTER XII
- 09CHAPTER XIII
- 10CHAPTER XIV
- 11CHAPTER XV
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