Poem by John Bannister Tabb

Deflowered

All the light of heaven
In a single beam
Unto earth was given,
As a perfect dream,
Wherein one bated breath
Of ecstacy is Death.


All of faith's believing
In one smile of love;
All of life's receiving
In a frown thereof:
For one frail flower the less,
God's world a wilderness.

1. The Baby's Star
2. The Bobolink
3. A Spy
4. Slumber-Song
5. The Bluebird

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