Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

The Babe

Sir William Jones (1746–1794)

NAKED on parents’ knees, a newborn child,

Weeping thou sat’st when all around thee smiled:

So live, that, sinking to thy last long sleep,

Thou then mayst smile while all around thee weep.