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Ah, yes — you’re thinking of Fanny Crosby’s little verse that begins:

“Oh, what a happy soul I am,

Although I cannot see!

I am resolved that in this world

Contented I will be.”

It’s sometimes quoted as “Oh, what a happy child I am,” since she wrote it when she was quite young — around eight years old, shortly after losing her sight.

There’s a kind of luminous innocence in those lines, isn’t there? She doesn’t deny loss or sadness, yet the tone is almost defiant in its joy — a child choosing gratitude over despair. That early poem seems to foreshadow the spirit of all her later hymns: eyes closed, yet a vision wide open.

Would you like me to show you the full poem and a short reflection on what it reveals about her inner life at that age?