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To A Sleeping Child. I.

By Thomas Hood

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Oh, 'tis a touching thing, to make one weep, -     A tender infant with its curtain'd eye,     Breathing as it would neither live nor die     With that unchanging countenance of sleep!     As if its silent dream, serene and deep,     Had lined its slumber with a still blue sky     So that the passive cheeks unconscious lie     With no more life than roses - just to keep     The blushes warm, and the mild, odorous breath.     O blossom boy! so calm is thy repose.     So sweet a compromise of life and death,     'Tis pity those fair buds should e'er unclose     For memory to stain their inward leaf,     Tinging thy dreams with unacquainted grief.

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About Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) was an English poet and humorist whose social protest poems "The Song of the Shirt" and "The Bridge of Sighs" drew attention to the plight of the poor. He was also a master of comic verse and wordplay.

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