The poem I am looking for contains the words ...."and so I wandered up to where you lay...."

Can anyone help me find it please?



"When the power of love is more important than the love of power, THEN we will have peace in the world."

ON A DEAD CHILD



Man proposes, God in His time disposes,

And so I wandered up to where you lay,

A little rose among the little roses,

And no more dead than they.



It seemed your childish feet were tired of straying,

You did not greet me from your flower-strewn bed,

Yet still I knew that you were only playing--

Playing at being dead.



I might have thought that you were really sleeping,

So quiet lay your eyelids to the sky,

So still your hair, but surely you were peeping;

And so I did not cry.



God knows, and in His proper time disposes,

And so I smiled and gently called your name,

Added my rose to your sweet heap of roses,

And left you to your game.

ON A DEAD CHILD

by: Richard Middleton

AN proposes, God in His time disposes,
And so I wander'd up to where you lay,
A little rose among the little roses,
And no more dead than they.

It seemed your childish feet were tired of straying,
You did not greet me from your flower-strewn bed,
Yet still I knew that you were only playing--
Playing at being dead.

I might have thought that you were really sleeping,
So quiet lay your eyelids to the sky,
So still your hair, but surely you were peeping;
And so I did not cry.

God knows, and in His proper time disposes,
And so I smiled and gently called your name,
Added my rose to your sweet heap of roses,
And left you to your game.

'On a Dead Child' is reprinted from An Anthology of Modern Verse. Ed. A. Methuen. London: Methuen & Co., 1921.

Thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much.

I have not been abole to track that down anywhere.

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