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The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Chapter 36 No.36

A solemn thing it is to me

To look upon a babe that sleeps

Wearing in its spirit-deeps

The undeveloped mystery

Of our Adam's taint and woe,

Which, when they developed be,

Will not let it slumber so;

Lying new in life beneath

The shadow of the coming death,

With that soft, low, quiet breath,

As if it felt the sun;

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