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Tabb Centenary Year LI Five poems by Rev. John B. Tabb. The Voyagers
The spring in festival array, September 1892 (p. 86, Nature: The Seasons) Mater Dolorosa
Again maternal Autumn grieves, April 1896 (p. 91, Nature: The Seasons) Life’s Repetend
Do ye forget the blossom-time? April 1899 (p. 116, Life, Death and Similar Themes: Life) A Rubric
The aster puts its purple on October 1895 (p. 13, Nature: Flowers) Autumn-Glow
If this the preface be of death April 1899 (p. 368, Quatrains: Miscellaneous) [Today is the first day of Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere this year. “The Voyagers”: the main is the sea. “Mater Dolorosa”: Latin, sorrowful mother. “Life’s Repetend”: a repetend is a refrain or repetition. “A Rubric”: this poem, part and parcel, is an extended metaphor on the Church’s liturgy; rubrics are instructions and directions for celebrating the liturgy; purple is the liturgical color of affliction and melancholy; an antiphon is a short refrain; pontifical robes are vestments worn by bishops and other prelates; Indian Summer is a warm spell when the leaves are in color; the pall is draped over a coffin, to which the fall of snow corresponds.] Lane Core Jr. CIW P Tue. 09/22/09 08:42:26 AM |
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