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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GRAVEDIGGER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Here underneath the sod
Last Line: Anon 'twill come again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: Here underneath the sod
Last Line: Anon 'twill come again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones
Here underneath the sod,
Where night till now hath been,
With every lifted clod
I let the sunshine in.
How dark soe'er the gloom
Of death's approaching shade,
The first within the tomb
Is light, that cannot fade.
And from the deepest grave
I banish it in vain;
For, like a tidal wave,
Anon 'twill come again.
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