<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368472" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Dead Baby</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LITTLE soul, for such brief space that entered <br>In this little body straight and chilly, <br>Little life that fluttered and departed, <br>Like a moth from an unopened lily, <br>Little being, without name or nation, <br>Where is now thy place among creation? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little dark-lashed eyes, unclosèd never, <br>Little mouth, by earthly food ne'er tainted, <br>Little breast, that just once heaved, and settled <br>In eternal slumber, white and sainted,-- <br>Child, shall I in future children's faces <br>See some pretty look that thine retraces? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is this thrill that strikes across my heart-strings <br>And in dew beneath my eyelid gathers, <br>Token of the bliss thou mightst have brought me, <br>Dawning of the love they call a father's? <br>Do I hear through this still room a sighing <br>Like thy spirit to me its author crying? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whence didst come and whither take thy journey, <br>Little soul, of me and mine created? <br>Must thou lose us, and we thee, forever, <br>O strange life, by minutes only dated? <br>Or new flesh assuming, just to prove us, <br>In some other babe return and love us? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Idle questions all: yet our beginning <br>Like our ending, rests with the Life-sender, <br>With whom naught is lost, and naught spent vainly: <br>Unto Him this little one I render. <br>Hide the face--the tiny coffin cover: <br>So, our first dream, our first hope--is over.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dinah+Maria+Mulock+Craik">Dinah Maria Mulock Craik</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368472" data-title="A Dead Baby de Dinah Maria Mulock Craik" data-description="LITTLE soul, for such brief space that entered In this little body straight and chilly, Little life that fluttered and departed, Like a moth from an unopened lily, Little being, without name or nation, Where is now thy place among creation? ..."></div> </div> </div>

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