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MY PHOTOGRAPH by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: MY SISTER SUNSHINE SMILED ON ME
Last Line: "OF RADIANCE FROM ABOVE."
Subject(s): DEATH; PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOGRAPHERS; DEAD, THE;

MY sister Sunshine smiled on me,
And of my visage wrought a shade.
"Behold," she cried, "the mystery
Of which thou art afraid!

"For Death is but a tenderness,
A shadow, that unclouded Love
Hath fashioned in its own excess
Of radiance from above."



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