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[Poems by Tabb in] Father Tabb

a study of his life and works with uncollected and unpublished poems

Tabb, John B. (1845-1909)

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MAID OF ALGERIA

There was an old maid of Algeria
Whose lungs were but cells of bacteria;
So she cut them both out,
Exclaiming, no doubt,
“It will be said that I died of Hysteria.”