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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 3, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poet's Biography
First Line: If we could know the silent shapes that pass
Last Line: Of vast and lifeless seas in the beyond?
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies
First Line: If we could know the silent shapes that pass
Last Line: Of vast and lifeless seas in the beyond?
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies
If we could know the silent shapes that pass
Across our lives, we should perchance have seen
God's Messenger with dusky pinions lean
Above the cot, and scan as in the glass
Of some clear forest water, framed in grass,
The likeness of his own seraphic mien;
And heard the call, implacably serene,
Of Him who is, who will be, and who was.
Oh Azrael, why tookest thou the child
'Neath thy great wings, that lock as in a vice,
From all that is alive and warm and fond,
To where a rayless sun that never smiled
Looks down on his own face in the pale ice
Of vast and lifeless seas in the Beyond?
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