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BEREFT by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: AS WHEN HER CALF IS TAKEN, FAR AND NEAR
Last Line: BRING THEM TO BIRTH AGAIN?
Subject(s): GRIEF; SORROW; SADNESS;
As when her calf is taken, far and near
The restless mother roves,
So now my heart lows, wandering everywhere,
To wake the voice it loves.
O Distance, are the echoes backward thrown
In mockery of pain?
Or doth remembered anguish of thine own
Bring them to birth again?



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