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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEAD TREE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Erect in death thou standest gaunt and bare
Last Line: Yet echoed in eternal dreams to her?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees
First Line: Erect in death thou standest gaunt and bare
Last Line: Yet echoed in eternal dreams to her?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees
ERECT in death thou standest gaunt and bare,
Thy limbs uplifted to the wintry sky,
To supplicate its pity, or defy
The threat of wrath with towering despair.
Around thee, like a wizard's widening snare,
Lithe shadows in a web fantastic lie,
Spun of the moon, in midnight sorcery,
Down gazing with a madman's vacant stare.
What reads she in thy ruin? Lives the past
Recorded in the present? Lingers here
The legend of a glory overcast,
The song of birds long silent, and the stir
Of leaves forever scattered to the blast,
Yet echoed in eternal dreams to her?
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