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EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (2) by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Poet Analysis

First Line: ITS BALMY LIPS THE INFANT BLEST
Last Line: DEATH SANG TO SLEEP WITH LULLABY.
Subject(s): DEATH - CHILDREN; DEATH - BABIES;

Its balmy lips the infant blest
Relaxing from its mother's breast,
How sweet it heaves the happy sigh
Of innocent satiety!

And such my infant's latest sigh!
O tell, rude stone! the passer by,
That here the pretty babe doth lie,
Death sang to sleep with Lullaby.



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