Martyr to virginity.


[ON AN INFANT DYING AS SOON AS BORN.]

I saw where in the shroud did lurk

A curious frame of Nature's work.

A flow'ret crushed in the bud,

A nameless piece of Babyhood,

Was in her cradle-coffin lying;

Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying:

So soon to exhange the imprisoning womb