On an Infant's Grave
John Clare
1793 to 1864
Track 1
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(Had I so happy been!)
The ashes of an Infant sleep,
For oh! when all must rise again,
And thy good luck to see;
What crowds will wish with me, in vain,
Beneath the sod where smiling creep
Such joy ’twas my sad fate to miss,
And sentence then shall have,
Recall’d to heaven’s eternal rest,
Ah! doubly happy, doubly blest,
Whose soul’s as smiling too;
The daisies into view,
Alone reserv’d for thee;
They’d fill’d an infant’s grave.
Ere it knew how to sin.
Thrice happy Infant! great the bliss
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