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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON SEEING A CHILD BLUSH ON HIS FIRST VIEW OF A CORPSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis good our earliest sympathies to trace
Last Line: Saw but an alien footmark and was sad!
Subject(s): Children; Corpses; Childhood; Cadavers
First Line: Tis good our earliest sympathies to trace
Last Line: Saw but an alien footmark and was sad!
Subject(s): Children; Corpses; Childhood; Cadavers
'Tis good our earliest sympathies to trace,
And I would muse upon a little thing -
What brought the blush into the infant's face
When first confronted with the rueful king?
He boldly came - what made his courage less?
A signal for the heart to beat less free
Are all imperial presences, and he
Was aw'd by Death's consummate kingliness;
A strange bewilder'd look of shame he wore;
'Twas the first mortal hint that cross'd the lad;
He fear'd the stranger, tho' he knew no more,
Surmising and surprised, but most, afraid,
As Crusoe wandering on the desert shore
Saw but an alien footmark and was sad!
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