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Poems of Coleridge

Part 2 / Act 4 — ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM

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"Be, rather than be call'd, a child of God," Death whisper'd!—with assenting nod, Its head upon its mother's breast, The Baby bow'd, without demur— Of the kingdom of the Blest Possessor, not inheritor.

April 8th, 1799.

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