Sonnet XIX: When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

Here's a link to a website with Matthew 25:14-30 (the parable of the talents).

http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=3079

This sonnet is talking about how Milton's one true talent, something he should use to serve God and be invested for him (as opposed to burying it in the ground) is almost worthless since Milton is now blind. Milton then asks if God wants him to work even if he can't see and Patience tells him that God does not need mans work, but whoever bears his own yoke serves God. I think the next part ("His state is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed and post o'er land and ocean without rest: They also serve wgo only stand and wait") talks about how God's servants (angels or humans) will help Milton even when he can't see.

-Paul D