| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 16866 |
| QUOTATION: | The child who enters life comes not with knowledge or intent,
So those who enter death must go as little children sent.
Nothing is known. But I believe that God is overhead;
And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905), U.S. poet. The Two Mysteries (l. 17–20). . .
World’s Great Religious Poetry, The. Caroline Miles Hill, ed. (1954) The Macmillan Company. |
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