<h2><SPAN name="TO_A_DEAD_BABY" id="TO_A_DEAD_BABY"></SPAN>TO A DEAD BABY</h2>
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<span class="i0">Pale little feet, grown quiet ere they could run<br/></span>
<span class="i2">One step in life’s strange journey; sweet lips chilled<br/></span>
<span class="i2">To silence ere they prattled; small hands stilled<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Before one stroke of life’s long toil was done;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Uncreased white brows that laurels might have won,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Yet leave their spacious promise unfulfilled—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">O baby dead, I cannot think God willed<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Your life should end when it had scarce begun!<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">If no man died till his long life should leave<br/></span>
<span class="i2">All hopes and aims fulfilled, until his feet<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Had trod all paths where men rejoice or grieve,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">I might have doubt of future life more sweet;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">But as I look on you, I must believe<br/></span>
<span class="i2">There is a heaven that makes this earth complete.<br/></span>
<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_24" id="page_24">{24}</SPAN></span></div>
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