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First Line: Afar he sleeps whose name is graven here
Last Line: Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies


AFAR he sleeps whose name is graven here,
Where loving hearts his early doom deplore;
Youth, promise, virtue, all that made him dear
Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore.





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