These have one fountain deep and clear—
The same whence gush’d that childlike tear!
[364] This incident is, I think, recorded by De Lille, in his poem of Les Jardins.
THE CHILD’S LAST SLEEP.
SUGGESTED BY A MONUMENT OF CHANTREY’S.
Thou sleepest—but when wilt thou wake, fair child?
When the fawn awakes in the forest wild?
When the lark’s wing mounts with the breeze of morn?
When the first rich breath of the rose is born?—
Lovely thou sleepest! yet something lies