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THE VIGIL by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: STAY FOR ME HERE!' AH, WELL DOTH LOVE OBEY
Last Line: I WAIT THEE STILL.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
"Stay for me here!" Ah, well doth Love obey
Thy mandate; for the stars have burnt away
The web of darkness and disrobe the day
In twilight chill.

"Stay for me here!" I cannot choose but wait.
The day is spent; and at the ponderous gate
Of sunset still I linger desolate.
Was this thy will?

"Stay for me here!" An echo in the gloom
Of midnight warns me of approaching doom.
As at the temple, so before the tomb,
I wait thee still.



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