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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE DEATH CHAMBER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Still upon the vacant wall
Last Line: With our midnight reveries?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: Still upon the vacant wall
Last Line: With our midnight reveries?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
Still upon the vacant wall
Doth the silver phantom fall,
Like a glory in the gloom
Of the long-deserted room.
Soul departed, can it be
Thou, death-laurelled majesty,
Mingling, in the moon's disguise,
With our midnight reveries?
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