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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHADOWS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye shrink not wholly from us when the morn
Last Line: The pledges of returning night and rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Shadows
First Line: Ye shrink not wholly from us when the morn
Last Line: The pledges of returning night and rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Shadows
YE shrink not wholly from us when the morn
Arises red with slaughter, and the slain
Sweet visages of tender dreams remain
To haunt us through the wakened hours forlorn,
Nor when the noontide cometh, and the thorn
Of light is centred in the quivering brain,
And Memory her pilgrimage of pain
Renews, with fainting footsteps, overworn.
Nay, then, what time the satellite of day
Pursues his path victorious, and the West,
Her clouds beleaguered vanishing away,
A desert seems of solitude oppressed,
Around us still your hovering pinions stay,
The pledges of returning night and rest.
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