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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TIME-BROOD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder how the mother-hour
Last Line: In age and size and gender.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Time
First Line: I wonder how the mother-hour
Last Line: In age and size and gender.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Time
I wonder how the mother-Hour
Can feed each hungry Minute,
And see that every one of them
Gets sixty seconds in it;
And whether, when she goes abroad,
She knows which ones attend her;
For all of them are just alike
In age and size and gender.
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