Johnny Boy

     Johnny Milton was a famous English writer next to William Shakespeare.  Milton had a great passion for writing, but by 1654, he became blind.  The word "light" is used to refer to his blindness on line 1.  Since he is blind, he considers himself as a useless poet even though he desires to serve God with his writing.  Milton at one point, concludes that God wants him to do smaller tasks since he is blind, but then he alludes to the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14-30.  He is worried that if he were to bury his talent as well, it might become lost forever and he will then be cast into God's darkness.  He does not want that.  Milton also makes reference to the Bible by saying, "Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best." He also says that you can serve God simply by standing and waiting for him.