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