Death & Dying
Epitaph on a Child
From Works, ed. Gosse, vol. I (1884)
Death & Dying
Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
A child, the darling of his parents' eyes:
A gentler Lamb ne'er sported on the plain,
A fairer flower will never bloom again:
Few were the days allotted to his breath;
Now let him sleep in peace his night of death.
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