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Poem by Thomas Gray


Epitaph on a Child


Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
A child, the darling of his parents' eyes:
A gentler lamb n'er sported on the plain,
A fairer flower will never bloom again:
Few were the days allotted to his breath;
Now let him sleep in peace his night of death. 



Thomas Gray


Thomas Gray's other poems:
  1. The Triumphs of Owen
  2. A Long Story
  3. On the Death of a Favourite Cat
  4. On a Distant Prospect of Eton College
  5. The Fatal Sisters


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