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a study of his life and works with uncollected and unpublished poems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

Sweet Eglantine, this breath of thine—
Mute eloquence of what was mine—
Awakes a memory divine,
A vanished gleam
Of Joy, that in my heart today,
Amid the folding shadows gray,
Doth lie, as erst in light it lay,
A fragrant dream.
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