Three Days to See 英文朗读 part 4

At times my heart cries out with longing to see all these things. If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch,how much more beauty must be revealed by sight. Yet,those who have eyes apparently seelittle. The panorama of color and action which fills the world is taken for granted. It is human,perhaps,to appreciate little that which we have and to long for that which we have not,but it is a great pity that in the world of light the gift of sight is used only as a mere conveniences rather than as a means of adding fullness to life.

If I were the president of  a university I should establish a compulsory course in“How to Use Your Eyes”. The professor would try to show his pupils how they could add joy to their lives by really seeing what passes unnoticed before them. He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties.

Perhaps I can best illustrate by imagining what I should most like to see if I were given the use of my eyes,say,for just three days.  And while I am imagining,suppose you,too,set your mind to work on the problem of how you would use your own eyes if you had only three more days to see. If with the on-coming darkness of the third night you knew that the sun would never rise for you again,how would you spend those three precious intervening days? What would you most want to let your gaze rest upon?

I,naturally,should want most to see the things which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. You,too,would want to let your eyes rest on the things that have become dear to you so that you could take the memory of them with you into the night that loomed before you.

If,by some miracle,I were granted three seeing days,to be followed by a relapse into darkness,I should divide the period into  three parts.