Landon in The Literary Gazette 1832/The Dying Child

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see The Dying Child.

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Literary Gazette, 28th April, 1832, Page 266

THE DYING CHILD.

Paraphrased from the German.

"Oh mother, what brings music here?
    Now listen to the song—
So soft, so sweet, so beautiful—
    The night-winds bear along!"

"My child, I only hear the wind,
    As with a mournful sound
It wanders mid the old oak trees,
    And strews their leaves around."

And dimmer grew his heavy eyes,
    His face more deadly fair,
And down dropped from his infant hand
    His book of infant prayer.

"I know it now, my mother dear,
    That song for me is given;
It is the angels’ choral hymn
    That welcomes me to heaven."