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EPITAPH ON A CHILD by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: THEY KILLED HER LAMB, AND NO ONE WEPT
Last Line: THIS WAS THE LITTLE ONE.
Subject(s): DEATH - CHILDREN; EPITAPHS; DEATH - BABIES;
They killed her lamb, and no one wept,
Save this small child, to find it gone;
O Lamb of God, and Lover of lambs –
This was the Little One.



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