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MAMMY by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: I LOVED HER COUNTENANCE WHEREON
Last Line: IT IS MY MAMMY'S FACE.
Subject(s): MOTHERS;

I loved her countenance whereon,
Despite the longest day,
The tenderness of visions gone
In shadow seemed to stay.
And now, when faithless sight is fled
Beyond my waking gaze,
Of darkness I am not afraid --
It is my Mammy's face.



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