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FROM PARADISE by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: ALL ELSE THAT IN THE LIMIT LIES
Last Line: AND YET, ALAS, HOW FAR!

All else that in the limit lies
Of fleeting time I see;
The glance, Beloved, of thine eyes
Alone is lost to me.

And in the selfsame interval,
The ever-changing place
Of light's horizon-line is all
That meets thy lonely gaze.

Behold the glimmer of a tear,
The twinkle of a star --
The shadow and the light how near!
And yet, alas, how far!



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