English poem
The Child seeing the Funeral of another Child
by Cotton Mather (1663–1728)
I in the Burying Place may see Graves not so long as I. From Deaths Arrest no Age is free; Young Children too may Dy. My God, may such an awful sight Awakening be to me! Oh! that by Early Grace I might For Death prepared be.
More by Cotton Mather
- PSAL. XXXVI. To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord
- Songs in such a Night
- The Child at his Food
- The Child on the Lord's Day
- The Child thinking on his Baptism
- The Child's Resolution
- The Doxology, of the Angels, In LUKE II.14
- The Plain SONGS OF THE Pious HUSBANDMAN; In the Work of his Husbandry, and the House of his Pilgrimage