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a study of his life and works with uncollected and unpublished poems

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ON THE HEIGHTS

On Pisgah each must stand,
And in a fruitful land
Afar descried,
Behold with longing eyes
Some promised Paradise
Of bliss denied.
And each on Calvary
Upon his cross must be
A sacrifice;
Where, Christ-like, two between—
For Life or Death unseen—
The victim dies.