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TO A PHOTOGRAPH by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: O TENDER SHADE
Last Line: BEHOLD IN ME!
Subject(s): PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOGRAPHERS;

O TENDER shade!
Lone captive of enamoured Light,
That from an angel visage bright
A glance betrayed.

Dost thou not sigh
To wander from thy prison-place?
To seek again the vanished face,
Or else, to die?

A shade like thee,
Dim Eidolon -- a dream disproved --
A memory of light removed,
Behold in me!



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