John Banister Tabb

1845-1909

 

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:

Poems
Copyright 1894
John Lane, LondonCopeland and Day, Boston