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

John Banister Tabb (1845–1909)

204. An Interpreter

WHAT, O Eternity,

Is Time to thee?—

What to the boundless All

My portion small?

Lift up thine eyes, my soul!

Against the tidal roll

Stands many a stone,

Whereon the breakers thrown

Are dashed to spray—

Else were the Ocean dumb.

So, in the way

Of tides eternal, thou

Abidest now;

And God Himself doth come

A suppliant to thee,

Love’s prisoned thought to free.