Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COMMUNION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB


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COMMUNION, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once when my heart was passion-free
Last Line: Revealing god and man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Self


Once when my heart was passion-free
To learn of things divine,
The soul of nature suddenly
Outpoured itself in mine.

I held the secrets of the deep
And of the heavens above;
I knew the harmonies of sleep,
The mysteries of love.

And for a moment's interval
The earth, the sky, the sea --
My soul encompassed, each and all,
As now they compass me.

To one in all, to all in one --
Since love the work began --
Life's ever-widening circles run,
Revealing God and man.





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