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(THE MESSAGE OF THE GRASS) by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: GIVE ME THYSELF TO SEE
Last Line: "THE SHADOWS ALL MY OWN."

Give me Thyself to see
In what is least to me:
That as I pass
Each blade of grass
That points above
May cry aloud, "O Love,
The light is Thine alone,
The shadows all my own."



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