Tabb Centenary Year VI

Five quatrains by Rev. John B. Tabb.

Deep Unto Deep

Where limpid waters lie between,
There only heaven to heaven is seen;
Where flows the tide of mutual tears
There only heart to heart appears.

August 1894 (p. 366, Quatrains: Miscellaneous)

The Rain-Pool

I am too small for winds to mar
My surface; but I hold a Star
That teaches me, though low my lot,
That highest heaven forgets me not.

1902 (p. 337, Quatrains: Day and Night)

“For the Rain It Raineth Every Day”

Aye, every day the rain doth fall,
And every day doth rise;
’Tis thus the heavens incessant call,
And thus the earth replies.

November 1892 (p. 356, Quatrains: Miscellaneous)

Tears

Out of the deep are we,
Out of that inland sea
Whereof the briny wave
Beats to the yawning grave.

1910 (p. 369, Quatrains: Miscellaneous)

The Sun

He prisons many a life indeed
Within the narrow cells of seed,
But cannot call them forth again
Without the sesame of rain.

April 1893 (p. 331, Quatrains: Day and Night)

[“Deep Unto Deep” echoes Psalm 41:8 (enumerated Psalm 42:7 in most Bibles). “For the Rain It Raineth Every Day” is from Shakespeare: Twelfth Night or King Lear. In “The Sun”, understand “sesame” as in “Open, Sesame” from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in Arabian Nights.]

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 02/01/09 06:56:29 PM
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