“A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?”

— William Wordsworth, book Lyrical Ballads

We Are Seven, st. 1 (1798).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

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“A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?”