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DEATH OF AN INFANTS by CHARLES SPRAGUE

First Line: ONE LITTLE BUD ADORNED MY BOWER
Last Line: T WILL BLOOM AGAIN ON HIGH.
Subject(s): DEATH - CHILDREN; DEATH - BABIES;
ONE little bud adorned my bower,
And shed sweet fragrance round;
It grew in beauty, hour by hour,
Till, ah! the Spoiler came in power,
And crushed it to the ground.

Yet not forever in the dust
That beauteous bud shall lie;
No! — in the garden of the just,
Beneath God's glorious eye, we trust,
'T will bloom again on high.



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