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A Child's Grave

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A little mound with chipped headstone,
The grass, ah me! uncut about the sward,
Summer by summer left alone
With one white lily keeping watch and ward.


Source:

Flower And Thorn: Later Poems
Copyright 1876
James R. Osgood And Company, Boston