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"American Female Poets [an electronic edition]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE7433.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.
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TO A DYING INFANT.
Go to thy rest, my child!Go to thy dreamless bed,Gentle and undefiled,With blessings on thy head,Fresh roses in thy hand,Buds on thy pillow laid,Haste from this fearful land,Where flowers so quickly fade.
Before thy heart might learnIn waywardness to stray,Before thy foot could turnThe dark and downward way;Ere sin might wound the breast,Or sorrow wake the tear,Rise to thy home of rest,In yon celestial sphere.
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Because thy smile was fair,Thy lip and eye so bright,Because thy cradle-careWas such a fond delight,Shall Love, with weak embrace,Thy heavenward flight detain?No! Angel, seek thy placeAmid yon cherub-train.
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