Poems for Children Sigourney/The Grave of a Child

by Lydia Sigourney

13.The Grave of a Child.

Come, see the grassy bed
    Where our companion lies,
And, 'mid your tears, remember well,
    His buried dust shall rise.

The seed that sown in earth,
    Is hidden from the eye,
At length puts forth the leaf, the bud,
    The flower of radiant dye.

When wintry storms are past,
    Spring decks the verdant tree,
And at the resurrection morn,
    Such shall his rising be.

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