John Bannister Tabb

1845-1909 / the United States

A Meditation

'Tis Nothingness that sunders me,
O God, from thine Eternity,
Wherein, a being yet to be,
I dwelt forever one with Thee,
Till twixt Thee and thy living Thought
This veil of Nothingness was wrought-
A gulf thy Love alone could span-
The mystery that made me Man.
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