| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | A Child’s Grave | | By William Prescott Foster (1856– ) |
| | | A BARREN waste of upland cold and gray, | |
| Its rocky ground to weed and thistle grown, | |
| As though the unwatched wind had reaped and sown | |
| Along its slopes for many a year and day; | |
| And in the midst, as if a grave should stray | 5 |
| And lose itself among the hills alone, | |
| A child’s small mound and pitiful headstone. | |
| The only fair thing near, not far away | |
| With hushéd murmur doth bewildered roam | |
| A little brook, and round the landscape wind, | 10 |
| As its deserted mountain source it sought | |
| To gain anew: it seemed like a lost mind, | |
| That in some desolate tract, unmapped of thought, | |
| Wanders, alone, and far from any home. | | | | |
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