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A MEDITATION by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: TIS NOTHINGNESS THAT SUNDERS ME
Last Line: THE MYSTERY THAT MADE ME MAN.

'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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