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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOING BLIND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Back to the primal gloom
Last Line: "the things unseen."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped
First Line: Back to the primal gloom
Last Line: "the things unseen."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped
Back to the primal gloom
Where life began,
As to my mother's womb
Must I a man
Return:
Not to be born again,
But to remain;
And in the School of Darkness learn
What mean
"The things unseen."
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