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Epitaph on an Infant
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Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.
1794.
ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM
“Be, rather than be call’d, a child of God,” Death whisper’d!--with assenting nod, Its head upon its mother’s breast, The Baby bow’d, without demur-- Of the kingdom of the Blest Possessor, not inheritor.
April 8th, 1799.