The child who enters life comes not with knowledge or intent, So those who enter death must go as little children sent. Nothing is known. But I believe that God is overhead; And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.
ATTRIBUTION:
Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905), U.S. poet. The Two Mysteries (l. 17–20). . .
World’s Great Religious Poetry, The. Caroline Miles Hill, ed. (1954) The Macmillan Company.
