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Tabb Centenary Year XXXVI Five poems by Rev. John B. Tabb. A Query
Was it the dawn that waked the bird April 1893 (p. 73, Nature: Day and Night) The Duet
A little yellow bird above, 1899 (p. 45, Nature: Birds) God
I see Thee in the distant blue; March 1895 (p. 218, Religion: Doctrine) The Bluebird
When God had made a host of them, 1899 (p. 46, Nature: Birds) Discrepancy
One dream the bird and blossom dreamed April 1893 (p. 359, Quatrains: Miscellaneous) [“A Query”: larks are songbirds; only one, the Horned Lark, lives in North America. “God”: violets are widely distributed flowering plants; this was the first poem of Father Tabb’s that I ever read. “The Bluebird”: bluebirds are songbirds belonging to the Thrush family; one species, the Eastern Bluebird, lives year-round in Virginia, where Father Tabb resided.] Lane Core Jr. CIW P Sun. 06/14/09 06:19:48 PM |
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