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English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Sir William Jones

345. On Parent Knees a Naked New-born Child


ON parent knees, a naked new-born child,

Weeping thou sat’st while all around thee smiled:

So live, that sinking to thy life’s last sleep,

Calm thou may’st smile, whilst all around thee weep.