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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HER THREE DAYS' CHILD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: I only, its mother, have known
Last Line: Two in one, and in god one in three.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants
First Line: I only, its mother, have known
Last Line: Two in one, and in god one in three.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Infants
I only, its mother, have known
The life that is taken away.
As the grape and the vine have we grown
Hour by hour, day by day,
Flesh of flesh, blood of blood, bone of bone.
As it was, evermore must it be,
O babe from thy mother removed;
As light unto shadow are we,
Each in the other approved,
Two in one, and in God one in three.
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