The Pauper’s Dead Child

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Metadata

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 6:300, 624, 25 September 1869.

First line

Hush! speak softly; fasten the door

Authorship

Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as Miss C. Hamilton, with a payment of £1 (NLS 341/310). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7681

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