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a study of his life and works with uncollected and unpublished poems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

The dusky mother of the rosy morn
Dies at its birth, contented to depart;
As sorrow from the precincts of the heart
When, flushed with tears, the man-child joy is born.
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