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EPITAPH ON SIR EDWARD SACKVILLE'S CHILD WHO DIED IN HIS BIRTH, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader, here lies a child that never cri'd
Last Line: Nothing that ever di'd hath liv'd so long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth


READER, here lies a child that never cri'd,
And therefore never di'd;
'Twas neither old nor young,
Born to this and the other world in one:
Let us then cease to moan,
Nothing that ever di'd hath liv'd so long.





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