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SLEEP (3) by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: WHAT ART THOU, BALMY SLEEP?
Last Line: "FROM THE HUSHED WAVES OF TONE."
Subject(s): SLEEP;
WHAT art thou, balmy sleep?
"Foam from the fragrant deep
Of silence, hither blown
From the hushed waves of tone."



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