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A HAIRBREADTH by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: TIS IN THE TWINKLE OF ESCAPE
Last Line: AWAITS THE HESITATING WILL.
Subject(s): RELIGION; THEOLOGY;
'Tis in the twinkle of escape
That all our safety lies.
Of danger, whatsoe'er the shape,
The nearness naught implies:
This side is life; that side, a breath
Of deviation, instant death.

'Tis in the @3present@1 I am free
The mental die to cast;
The future yet of mastery
Is palsied as the past;
Between, the breathless balance still
Awaits the hesitating will.



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