Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LEAVES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB


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First Line: All your sylvan prophecies
Last Line: "doomed, alas, to die."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Leaves; Transience; Impermanence


All your sylvan prophecies
But a phantom sigh!
"Yea, we listened to the breeze
Tempting us to fly
Like the summer birds and bees
From the branches high;
Now beneath our naked trees
Shadowless we lie,
In the autumn mysteries
Doomed, alas, to die."





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