Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EPITAPH ON A CHILD, by THOMAS GRAY


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First Line: Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
Last Line: Now let him sleep in peace his night of death.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies


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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