The Baby

From the Sanscrit by Sir William Jones On parents’ knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat’st when all around thee smiled: So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Thou then mayst smile while all around thee weep.

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Poems of Home: I. About Children

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  • From the Sanscrit by Sir William Jones On parents’ knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat’st when all around thee smiled: So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Thou then mayst smile while all around thee weep.