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a study of his life and works with uncollected and unpublished poems

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MATURITY

Talk not of childhood's thoughtless joy!
I would not be again a boy
For all that boyhood brings;
The callow fledgling in the nest
Is not of birds supremely blest
As he that soars and sings.