On the Death of a Christian Child, E.J. Hutchinson (June 2026)
On the Death of a Christian Child
(after a poem in the Latin Anthology)
(after a poem in the Latin Anthology)
You were noble. You were
innocent and young.
You died and, dying, wrung out tears from all.
But since the mind unstained approaches heaven,
And for the just lies open heaven’s hall,
Let us praise, damning tears, your young demise,
Who, hurried to the stars, now sinless shine.
The swiftness of your death, happy for you,
Proves not that you were callous to my sighs,
But that you so pleased God he’d not delay
To bring you home to paradise today.
You died and, dying, wrung out tears from all.
But since the mind unstained approaches heaven,
And for the just lies open heaven’s hall,
Let us praise, damning tears, your young demise,
Who, hurried to the stars, now sinless shine.
The swiftness of your death, happy for you,
Proves not that you were callous to my sighs,
But that you so pleased God he’d not delay
To bring you home to paradise today.
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