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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY MESSMATE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Why fear thee, brother death
Last Line: And to the past is known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Self; Dead, The
First Line: Why fear thee, brother death
Last Line: And to the past is known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Self; Dead, The
Why fear thee, brother Death,
That sharest, breath by breath,
This brimming life of mine?
Each draught that I resign
Into thy chalice flows.
Comrades of old are we;
All that the Present knows
Is but a shade of me:
My Self to thee alone
And to the Past is known.
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