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SHELL-TINTS by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: SEA-SHELL, WHENCE THE RAINBOW DYES
Last Line: "WRITTEN IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE."
Subject(s): SHELLS; CONCHOLOGY;

Sea-shell, whence the rainbow dyes,
Flashing in thy sunset skies?
Thou wast in the penal brine
When appeared the saving sign.
"Yea, but when the bow was bended,
Hope, that hung it in the sky,
Down into the deep descended
Where the starless shadows lie;
And with tender touch of glory
Traced in living lines of love,
On my lowly walls, the story
Written in the heavens above."



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