ONLY A BABY'S GRAVE.
Only a baby's grave ! Some foot or two, at the most, Of star-daisied sod; yet I think that God Knows what that little grave cost. Only a baby's gravs ! To children even so small, That they sit there and sing — so small a thing Seems scarcely a grave at all ! Only a baby's grave ! Strange! how we moan and fret For a little face that was here such a space — O more strange, could we forget ! Only a baby's grave! Will the little life be much Too small a gem for His diadem, Whose kingdom is made of such ? Only a baby's grave ! ; Yet often we come and sit By the little stone and thank God to own We are nearer Heaven for it !
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 154, 4 July 1867, Page 3
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128ONLY A BABY'S GRAVE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 154, 4 July 1867, Page 3
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