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[Poems by Tabb in] Father Tabb

a study of his life and works with uncollected and unpublished poems

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196

SEEMING FAILURE

O wave upon the strand!
What urges thee in vain
To lift the baffled hand
In suppliance again?
“The passion that impels
The tidal energies
In every bud that swells,
In every soul that sighs:
“The same that on the cross
Sustained the dying Christ,
When Love for seeming Loss
Alone was sacrificed.”