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UPON A CHILD

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Here a pretty baby lies
Sung asleep with lullabies;
Pray be silent, and not stir
Th' easy earth that covers her.




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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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