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LIMITATION by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: BREATHE ABOVE ME OR BELOW
Last Line: LIFE IN TIME'S CAPTIVITY.
Subject(s): LIFE; TIME;

BREATHE above me or below;
Never canst thou farther go
Than the spirit's octave-span,
Harmonizing God and Man.

Thus within the iris-bound,
Light a prisoner is found;
Thus within my soul I see
Life in Time's captivity.



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