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Edward Silvera, "On the Death of a Child" (1930)

On the Death of a Child

You came like the dawn
With no voice
To proclaim your calm birth
Save the song of the lark;
And when shadows foretold
That the quick day was done,
Your little white shroud
Had already been spun,
So you stole away in the dark.


Published in Four Lincoln University Poets, 1930 

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