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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

IV. Sabbath: Worship: Creed

On an Infant

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“BE, rather than be called, a child of God,”

Death whispered!—with assenting nod,

Its head upon its mother’s breast,

The baby bowed, without demur—

Of the kingdom of the Blest

Possessor, not inheritor.