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a study of his life and works with uncollected and unpublished poems

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THE WRAITH

The mist commingled with her tears
The while she watched his form—
The hazard of her hopes and fears—
Defy the threatening storm.
And where he vanished from her eyes,
Behold, his spirit brave,
Defiant, in the fog's disguise,
Forsakes the watery grave.