The Annunciation
By John Banister Tabb
"Fiat!" -- The flaming word
Flashed, as the brooding Bird
Uttered the doom far heard
Of Death and Night.
Fiat!
-- A cloistered womb --
A sealed, untainted tomb --
Wakes to the birth and bloom
Of Life and Light.
Source Book
Poems
by John Banister Tabb
Copyright 1860
Published by Ticknor And Fields, Boston
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