Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.

John Banister Tabb (1845–1909)

202. The Life-tide

EACH wave that breaks upon the strand,

How swift soe’er to spurn the sand

And seek again the sea,

Christ-like, within its lifted hand

Must bear the stigma of the land

For all eternity.