On An Infant Which Died Before Baptism - By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Be, rather than be call'd, a child of God,"
  Death whisper'd!--with assenting nod,
  Its head upon its mother's breast,
    The Baby bow'd, without demur--
  Of the kingdom of the Blest
    Possessor, not inheritor.

April 8th, 1799.