Religion
The Life-Tide
From The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, ed. D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917)
Religion
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.
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Tabb, John Banister. “The Life-Tide.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/78/.
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Tabb, John Banister. “The Life-Tide.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tabb/78/.
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