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REGRET by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: WHAT PLEADING PASSION OF THE DARK
Last Line: "WHAT NOON HATH NEVER HEARD!"
Subject(s): MORNING;

WHAT pleading passion of the dark
Hath left the Morning pale?
She listens! "'T is, alas, the Lark,
And not the Nightingale!
O for the gloom-encircled sphere,
Whose solitary bird
Outpours for Love's awakening ear
What noon hath never heard!"



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