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1772–1834

ON AN INFANT

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘ Be, rather than be called, a child of God,’ Death whispered! With assenting nod, Its head upon its mother's breast, The Baby bowed, without demur —

Of the kingdom of the Blest Possessor, not Inheritor.

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