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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIVERY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Old-fashioned raiment suits the tree
Last Line: His ancestors have worn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees
First Line: Old-fashioned raiment suits the tree
Last Line: His ancestors have worn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees
Old-fashioned raiment suits the tree:
Though flouting winds are fain
To strip the foliage, presently
He patterns it again;
Fastidious of chivalry,
Rejecting as in scorn
All other than the panoply
His ancestors have worn.
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