Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FOUNDLING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB


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THE FOUNDLING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What time the wandering mother night
Last Line: Went vanishing away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Night; Orphans; Bedtime; Foundlings


What time the wandering mother night
Made ready to depart,
A new-born, trembling dream of light
She laid upon my heart.
"Keep it," she sighed, and bending low
Wept o'er it where it lay;
Then, suddenly as April snow,
Went vanishing away.





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