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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MATINS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Still sing the morning stars remote
Last Line: The stars begin again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds
First Line: Still sing the morning stars remote
Last Line: The stars begin again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds
Still sing the morning stars remote
With echoes now unheard
Save in the scintillating note
Of some dawn-wakened bird
Whose heart, a fountain of the light,
Prolongs the limpid strain
Till on the borderland of night
The stars begin again.
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