Limitation
By John Banister Tabb
Breathe above me or below;
Never canst thou farther go
Than the spirit's octave-span,
Harmonizing God and Man.
Thus within the iris-bound,
Light a prisoner is found;
Thus within my soul I see
Life in Time's captivity.
Source Book
Poems
by John Banister Tabb
Copyright 1860
Published by Ticknor And Fields, Boston
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