Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
A child, the darling of his parents' eyes:
A gentler lamb n'er sported on the plain,
A fairer flower will never bloom again:
Few were the days allotted to his breath;
Now let him sleep in peace his night of death.
More verses by Thomas Gray
- If I Should Die
- Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude
- The Curse Upon Edward
- The Progress Of Poesy
- On The Death Of Richard West