Here lies to each her parents' ruth,
Mary, the daughter of their youth:
Yet, all heaven's gifts, being heaven's due,
It makes the father, less, to rue.
At six months' end, she parted hence
With safety of her innocence;
Whose soul heaven's queen, (whose name she bears)
In comfort of her mother's tears,
Hath placed amongst her virgin train:
Where, while that severed doth remain,
This grave partakes the fleshly birth.
Which cover lightly, gentle earth.
On My First Daughter
Ben Jonson
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Poem topics: birth, daughter, father, innocence, mother, soul, gentle, earth, cover, remain, queen, grave, comfort, train, youth, heaven, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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