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a study of his life and works with uncollected and unpublished poems

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AUGURY

Before the dawn, 'tis light,
If Hope the vigil keep;
Before the noon-tide, night,
Of Woe, despairing, weep:
The Future 'tis that shows
What now the present knows.