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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SLUMBER SONG (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep! The spirits that attend
Last Line: All the sleeping and the dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Sleep
First Line: Sleep! The spirits that attend
Last Line: All the sleeping and the dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Sleep
Sleep! the spirits that attend
On thy waking hours are fled.
Heaven thou canst not now offend
Till thy slumber-plumes are shed;
Consciousness alone doth lend
Life its pain, and death its dread;
Innocence and peace befriend
All the sleeping and the dead.
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