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I saw where in the shroud did lurk	A
A curious frame of Nature's work	A
A floweret crush'd in the bud	B
A nameless piece of Babyhood	C
Was in her cradle coffin lying	D
Extinct with scarce the sense of dying	D
So soon to exchange the imprisoning womb	E
For darker closets of the tomb	E
She did but ope an eye and put	F
A clear beam forth then straight up shut	G
For the long dark ne'er more to see	H
Through glasses of mortality	H
Riddle of destiny who can show	I
What thy short visit meant or know	I
What thy errand here below	I
Shall we say that Nature blind	J
Check'd her hand and changed her mind	J
Just when she had exactly wrought	K
A finish'd pattern without fault	L
Could she flag or could she tire	M
Or lack'd she the Promethean fire	M
With her nine moons' long workings sicken'd	N
That should thy little limbs have quicken'd	N
Limbs so firm they seem'd to assure	O
Life of health and days mature	O
Woman's self in miniature	O
Limbs so fair they might supply	P
Themselves now but cold imagery	H
The sculptor to make Beauty by	P
Or did the stern eyed Fate descry	H
That babe or mother one must die	P
So in mercy left the stock	Q
And cut the branch to save the shock	Q
Of young years widow'd and the pain	R
When single state comes back again	S
To the lone man who reft of wife	T
Thenceforward drags a maim egrave d life	T
The economy of Heaven is dark	U
And wisest clerks have miss'd the mark	U
Why human buds like this should fall	V
More brief than fly ephemeral	W
That has his day while shrivell'd crones	H
Stiffen with age to stocks and stones	H
And crabb egrave d use the conscience sears	H
In sinners of an hundred years	H
Mother's prattle mother's kiss	H
Baby fond thou ne'er wilt miss	H
Rites which custom does impose	H
Silver bells and baby clothes	H
Coral redder than those lips	H
Which pale death did late eclipse	H
Music framed for infants' glee	H
Whistle never tuned for thee	H
Though thou want'st not thou shalt have them	X
Loving hearts were they which gave them	X
Let not one be missing nurse	H
See them laid upon the hearse	H
Of infant slain by doom perverse	H
Why should kings and nobles have	Y
Pictured trophies to their grave	Z
And we churls to thee deny	P
Thy pretty toys with thee to lie	P
A more harmless vanity	H

Charles Lamb

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