Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

The Burial of an Infant

Henry Vaughan (1621–1695)

BLEST infant bud, whose blossom-life

Did only look about, and fall,

Wearied out in a harmless strife

Of tears and milk, the food of all!

Sweetly didst thou expire: thy soul

Flew home unstain’d by his new kin;

For ere thou knew’st how to be foul,

Death wean’d thee from the world, and sin.

Softly rest all thy virgin-crumbs!

Lapp’d in the sweets of thy young breath,

Expecting till thy Saviour comes

To dress them, and unswaddle death.