Poems on Various Subjects (Coleridge)/Epitaph on an Infant

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First published in the Morning Chronicle, 24th September, 1794.

3266927Poems on Various Subjects (Coleridge) — Epitaph on an InfantSamuel Taylor Coleridge

EPITAPH

ON

AN INFANT.



ERE Sin could blight or Sorrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to Heaven convey'd
And bade it blossom there.