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DEPARTED Child I could forget thee once	A
Though at my bosom nursed this woeful gain	B
Thy dissolution brings that in my soul	C
Is present and perpetually abides	D
A shadow never never to be displaced	E
By the returning substance seen or touched	F
Seen by mine eyes or clasped in my embrace	G
Absence and death how differ they and how	H
Shall I admit that nothing can restore	I
What one short sigh so easily removed	J
Death life and sleep reality and thought	K
Assist me God their boundaries to know	L
O teach me calm submission to thy Will	M
The Child she mourned had overstepped the pale	N
Of Infancy but still did breathe the air	O
That sanctifies its confines and partook	P
Reflected beams of that celestial light	Q
To all the Little ones on sinful earth	R
Not unvouchsafed a light that warmed and cheered	S
Those several qualities of heart and mind	T
Which in her own blest nature rooted deep	U
Daily before the Mother's watchful eye	V
And not hers only their peculiar charms	W
Unfolded beauty for its present self	X
And for its promises to future years	Y
With not unfrequent rapture fondly hailed	Z
Have you espied upon a dewy lawn	A2
A pair of Leverets each provoking each	B2
To a continuance of their fearless sport	C2
Two separate Creatures in their several gifts	D2
Abounding but so fashioned that in all	E2
That Nature prompts them to display their looks	F2
Their starts of motion and their fits of rest	G2
An undistinguishable style appears	Y
And character of gladness as if Spring	P
Lodged in their innocent bosoms and the spirit	H2
Of the rejoicing morning were their own	I2
Such union in the lovely Girl maintained	J2
And her twin Brother had the parent seen	K2
Ere pouncing like a ravenous bird of prey	L2
Death in a moment parted them and left	M2
The Mother in her turns of anguish worse	N2
Than desolate for oft times from the sound	O2
Of the survivor's sweetest voice dear child	P2
He knew it not and from his happiest looks	F2
Did she extract the food of self reproach	Q2
As one that lived ungrateful for the stay	L2
By Heaven afforded to uphold her maimed	R2
And tottering spirit And full oft the Boy	S2
Now first acquainted with distress and grief	T2
Shrunk from his Mother's presence shunned with fear	U2
Her sad approach and stole away to find	T
In his known haunts of joy where'er he might	Q
A more congenial object But as time	V2
Softened her pangs and reconciled the child	P2
To what he saw he gradually returned	W2
Like a scared Bird encouraged to renew	X2
A broken intercourse and while his eyes	Y2
Were yet with pensive fear and gentle awe	Z2
Turned upon her who bore him she would stoop	A3
To imprint a kiss that lacked not power to spread	B3
Faint colour over both their pallid cheeks	C3
And stilled his tremulous lip Thus they were calmed	D3
And cheered and now together breathe fresh air	O
In open fields and when the glare of day	L2
Is gone and twilight to the Mother's wish	E3
Befriends the observance readily they join	F3
In walks whose boundary is the lost One's grave	G3
Which he with flowers hath planted finding there	O
Amusement where the Mother does not miss	H3
Dear consolation kneeling on the turf	I3
In prayer yet blending with that solemn rite	Q
Of pious faith the vanities of grief	T2
For such by pitying Angels and by Spirits	J3
Transferred to regions upon which the clouds	K3
Of our weak nature rest not must be deemed	L3
Those willing tears and unforbidden sighs	Y2
And all those tokens of a cherished sorrow	L
Which soothed and sweetened by the grace of Heaven	M3
As now it is seems to her own fond heart	N3
Immortal as the love that gave it being	P

William Wordsworth

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