XII
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Despair
Why should I live? one son had forged on his father and fled,
And if I believed in a God, I would thank him, the other is dead,
And there was a baby-girl, that had never look'd on the light:
Happiest she of us all, for she past from the night to the night.