'Be, rather than be call'd, a child of God,' <br />Death whisper'd!--with assenting nod, <br />Its head upon its mother's breast, <br />The Baby bow'd, without demur-- <br />Of the kingdom of the Blest <br />Possessor, not inheritor. <br /> <br /> <br />April 8th, 1799.<br /><br />Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-an-infant-which-died-before-baptism/
