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OUR FIRST-BORN by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: IT DIED SO YOUNG! AND YET
Last Line: WE SHALL NOT FIND AGAIN.
Subject(s): INNOCENCE;

It died so young! and yet,
Of all that vanished hence,
Is none to lingering regret
So lost as Innocence:

For wheresoe'er we go,
Whatever else remain,
That Favorite of Heaven, we know,
We shall not find again.



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