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UPON YOUNG MASTER ROGERS by JOHN DRYDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: OF GENTLE BLOOD, HIS PARENTS ONLY TREASURE
Last Line: HE LEAP'D O'ER AGE, AND TOOK THE SHORTEST WAY.
Subject(s): DEATH - CHILDREN; GRIEF; DEATH - BABIES; SORROW; SADNESS;

OF gentle Blood, his Parents only Treasure,
Their lasting Sorrow and their vanish'd Pleasure,
Adorn'd with Features, Virtues, Wit, and Grace,
A large Provision for so short a Race:
More mod'rate Gifts might have prolong'd his Date,
Too early fitted for a better State:
But, knowing Heav'n his Home, to shun Delay
He leap'd o'er Age, and took the shortest Way.



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