John Banister Tabb
Last Lines
Alone discerneth each by name.
And fills the world with rapture and with light.
And lift to Heaven a lost humanity.
And rejoice in the beat of the rain!
Arise! thou hast inherited the sky.
But soul to soul and heart to heart.
Enshrined thee in my heart of heart.
Hangs the half of a ring for me.
In the soul of all beauty is one.
Is mystery of mysteries to me.
Its shadow falls alike on thee and me!
Join in to get Him back His ball!
Love's majesty must look below.
Nor, save together, Thine are we.
Of Age, should sadden even thee.
Of all the vanished Past, we Echoes only stay!
Of Life, one hovering shade the less?
Of one beloved that comes not back.
Shall vanish when our own are true.
Still wandering the world with thee?
That woos all nature to her silent rest.
The fragrance of her sheltering leaves.
The Winter's threatening tide.
Tis in thy strength they stand!
To render God the things of God.
To the calm of the cloister Night!
Untouched of human tenderness.
We each and all thine image keep?
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