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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE VIOLET, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet violet, who knows
Last Line: Each bank of sundering death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets
First Line: Sweet violet, who knows
Last Line: Each bank of sundering death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets
SWEET violet, who knows
From whence thy fragrance flows
Or whither hence it goes?
A pious pilgrim here
To Winter's sepulchre
Thou comest year by year
Alert with balmier store
Than Magdalen of yore
To Love's anointing bore.
Methinks that thou hast been
So oft the go-between
'Twixt sight and things unseen
That with thy wafted breath
Alternate echoeth
Each bank of sundering Death.
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