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EPIGRAM ON A DEAD CHILD, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The frowning fates have taken hence / callimachus, a child
Last Line: So were his troubles small.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus
Variant Title(s): Calimachus
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies


The frowming fates have taken hence
Calimachus, a childe
Five yeres of age; ah well is he
from cruell care exilde:
What though he livd but little tyme,
waile nought for that at all:
For as his yeres not many were,
so were his troubles small.




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