Thursday, March 3, 2011

Here a Pretty Baby Lies


Here a pretty baby lies, sung asleep with lullabies:
Pray be silent, and not stir
Th'easy earth that covers her.
-Robert Herrick (1648)




So, I just read this poem as part of my English class...and was seriously struck by how depressing it is...
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