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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A DEAD BABE, by VERA ANDREW HARVEY
First Line: Farewell, sweet precious babe, my only one!
Last Line: For all eternity through sorrow saved!
Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Mothers; Infants
First Line: Farewell, sweet precious babe, my only one!
Last Line: For all eternity through sorrow saved!
Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Mothers; Infants
Farewell, sweet precious babe, my only one!
Alas, to know thy pain but not thy bliss!
A wanton e'en may find an infant's kiss,
While I, creation's plan revered, feel none.
Broken, hope's thread from age-old longing spun!
Lord, why should I love's joyous crowning miss?
Was it thy plan my crowning should be this --
Anguish? I feebly pray thy will be done.
O grant that on Hereafter's golden sands,
Which lonely years of human tears have laved,
I may once more pick up the severed strands
Of mortal love and there receive unscathed
Motherhood's diadem from baby hands,
For all eternity through sorrow saved!
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