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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOUNTAIN-BORN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: How hast thou, little spring
Last Line: "again I nightly rise."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: How hast thou, little spring
Last Line: "again I nightly rise."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
How hast thou, little spring,
The heart to sing,
Leaving thy lofty home
For yonder plain,
Whence ne'er again
Returning canst thou come?
"Nay, not as now I go;
But mute as snow,"
The laughing wave replies;
"To crown the height,
In vapors white
Again I nightly rise."
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