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THE REAPER by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: TELL ME WHITHER, MAIDEN JUNE
Last Line: "THE GRANARY OF SLEEP."
Subject(s): SLEEP;

TELL me whither, maiden June,
Down the dusky slope of noon
With thy sickle of a moon,
Goest thou to reap.

"Fields of Fancy by the stream
Of night in silvery silence gleam,
To heap with many a harvest-dream
The granary of Sleep."



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