| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | The Burial of an Infant | | By 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! | |
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| Sweetly didst thou expire: thy soul | 5 |
| 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. | |
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| Softly rest all thy virgin-crumbs! | |
| Lapp’d in the sweets of thy young breath, | 10 |
| Expecting till thy Saviour comes | |
| To dress them, and unswaddle death. | | | | |
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