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[We saw, a few days since, an infant arrayed for the grave, with a profusion of bright and sweet flowers about it, that robbed it of all melancholy associations; among which the white lily was prominent, as if the beautiful and perishable plant claimed pleasant affinity with the Lilie at rest. Upon the casket in which the little one reposed was simply graven the words “Lilie sleeps,” thus omitting even the usual age and date of death, that have such a meaning of mortality about them. The following lines were suggested by the scene:—]