On an Infant. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). IV. Sabbath: Worship: Creed. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. IV. The Higher Life

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904.

IV. Sabbath: Worship: Creed

On an Infant

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)


Which Died before Baptism “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	5
Possessor, not inheritor.