ONCE when my heart was passion-free
To learn of things divine,
The soul of nature suddenly
Outpoured itself in mine.
I held the secrets of the deep,
And of the heavens above;
I knew the harmonies of sleep,
The mysteries of love.
And for a moment’s interval
The earth, the sky, the sea-
My soul encompassed, each and all,
As now they compass me.
To one in all, to all in one-
Since Love the work began-
Life’s ever widening circles run,
Revealing God and man.
(John Bannister Tabb)
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