The Weblog at The View from the Core - Sun. 11/29/09 10:13:58 AM
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Tabb Centenary Year LXIV Five poems by Rev. John B. Tabb. The Foundling
What time the wandering mother night 1897 (p. 72, Nature: Day and Night) The Expected of Nations
While shepherd stars their nightly vigils keep 1902 (p. 335, Quatrains: Day and Night) The Dial
A dreamer in the dark, I grow 1910 (p. 77, Nature: Day and Night) At Cock-Crow
Crow! For the night has thrice denied 1899 (p. 336, Quatrains: Day and Night) Light in Darkness
The day—of sorrow pitiless— 1907 (p. 85, Nature: Day and Night) [“The Foundling”: “what time” means when. “The Expected of Nations”: one of the titles (Latin, exspectatio gentium) of the Lord Jesus in the seventh of the “O” Antiphons, used in the Catholic liturgy during Advent. “The Dial”: a sundial; the poem alludes to an Old Testament story about the prophet Daniel, recounted in Daniel 5. “At Cock-Crow”: the poem alludes to the Gospel story of St. Peter’s triple denial of the Lord Jesus, as in Mark 14:66-72. “Light in Darkness”: the second line quotes the angel at the Lord’s tomb, as in Matthew 28:6.] Lane Core Jr. CIW P Sun. 11/29/09 10:13:58 AM |
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