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First Line: Blest infant bud, whose blossom-life
Last Line: To dress them, and unswaddle death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials


Blest infant bud, whose blossom-life
Did only look about, and fall,
Wearied out in a harmless strife
Of tears and milk, the food of all;

Sweetly didst thou expire: thy soul
Flew home unstained by his new kin,
For ere thou knew'st how to be foul,
Death weaned thee from the world and sin.

Softly rest all thy virgin-crumbs!
Lapped in the sweets of thy young breath,
Expecting till thy Saviour comes
To dress them, and unswaddle death.





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