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By the Rev. Dr. Booker.
Written on Placing a Lily of the Valley in the Dead
Hand of a Lovely Child, While Lying in her Coffin,
May 24,
1829.
Thou sleeping innocent ! to thee I bring
This purest offering of the new-born Spring !
While to thy spirit by thy God is given
A palm of glory, in the realms of heaven.