Cruel the pang to hear the struggling sigh,
Watch o’er the faded cheek and closing eye;
See infant innocence with parting breath
Its weeping parents bless, and smile in death.-
Check your vain tears!-Lo! He who “walk’d the wave,”
Triumphant rising from the vanquish’d grave,
To man, by blood celestial ransom’d, cries,
He lives, for ever lives, in Me who dies.
(Henry James Pye)
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