Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: SILENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB


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SONNET: SILENCE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Temple of god, from all eternity
Last Line: The voice of love's unutterable word.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Silence; Worship


TEMPLE of God, from all eternity
Alone like Him without beginning found;
Of time and space and solitude the bound,
Yet in thyself of all communion free.
Is, then, the temple holier than He
That dwells therein? Must reverence surround
With barriers the portal, lest a sound
Profane it? Nay; behold a mystery!

What was, abides; what is, hath ever been:
The lowliest the loftiest sustains.
A silence, by no breath of utterance stirred --
Virginity in motherhood -- remains,
Clear, midst a cloud of all-pervading sin,
The voice of Love's unutterable word.





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