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a study of his life and works with uncollected and unpublished poems

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HEREDITY

The children of the night,
The star, the glowworm bright,
The dewdrop clear,
In livery of light
Undimmed appear.
The children of the Day,
The cleaving shadows gray,
Wan vigils keep,
Twice on their twilight way
His doom to weep.