<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573267" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XIV on A Noble Child, Early Dead</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell to thee, thou swift--departed Stranger,<br>Weary with little stay,--farewell to thee!<br>There hung a picture in thy nursery<br>Of the God--boy, who slumbered in the manger,--<br>And oft I feared, lest Thou should'st meet the danger,<br>For pride of wealth or lusted empiry,<br>Of losing that which I so loved to see,<br>Thy likeness to that picture, lovely Stranger.<br>Thou hast gone back all pure,--thy every feature<br>Faithful to what the limner's sacred eye<br>Pourtrayed the Son of God; most blessed creature!<br>Thy brow unknit by passion, pain, or scorn,<br>Thine is the special privilege to have borne<br>The Cross of Love without the Agony.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Monckton+Milnes+Houghton">Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton</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=573267" data-title="Sonnet XIV on A Noble Child, Early Dead de Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton" data-description="Farewell to thee, thou swift--departed Stranger, Weary with little stay,--farewell to thee! There hung a picture in thy nursery Of the God--boy, who slumbered in the manger,-- And oft I feared, lest Thou should'st meet the danger, For pride of wea..."></div> </div> </div>

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