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MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 1, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have dark egyptians stolen thee away
Last Line: In changeless baby loveliness still there.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies


Have dark Egyptians stolen thee away,
Oh Baby, Baby, in whose cot we peer
As down some empty gulf that opens sheer
And fathomless, illumined by no ray?

And wilt thou come, on some far distant day,
With unknown face, and say, "Behold! I'm here,
The child you lost"; while we in sudden fear,
Dumb with great doubt, shall find no word to say?

One darker than dark gipsy holds thee fast;
One whose strong fingers none has forced apart
Since first they closed on things that were too fair;

Nor shall we see thee other than thou wast,
But such as thou art printed in the heart,
In changeless baby loveliness still there.





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