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DAVID'S CHILD; SONNET, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In face of a great sorrow like to death
Last Line: But when the heart is broken -- not a word.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies


-- "Is the child dead?" -- And they said, "He is dead."

IN face of a great sorrow like to death
How do we wrestle night and day with tears;
How do we fast and pray; how small appears
The outside world, while, hanging on some breath
Of fragile hope, the chamber where we lie
Includes all space. -- But if sudden at last
The blow falls; or by incredulity
Fond led, we -- never having one thought cast
Towards years where "the child" was not -- see it die,
And with it all our future, all our past, --
We just look round us with a dull surprise:
For lesser pangs we had filled earth with cries
Of wild and angry grief that would be heard: --
But when the heart is broken -- not a word.





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