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Grave on the high plains, Dawson County, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, March 1940
Upon a Child. An Epitaph
But borne, and like a short Delight,
I glided by my Parents sight.
That done, the harder Fates deny'd
My longer stay, and so I dy'd.
Upon a child
Here a pretty Baby lies
Sung asleep with Lullabies:
Pray be silent, and not stirre
Th'easie earth that covers her.
Upon Prew his Maid
In this little urne is laid
Prewdence Baldwin (once my maid)
From whose happy spark here let
Spring the purple Violet.
But borne, and like a short Delight,
I glided by my Parents sight.
That done, the harder Fates deny'd
My longer stay, and so I dy'd.
Upon a child
Here a pretty Baby lies
Sung asleep with Lullabies:
Pray be silent, and not stirre
Th'easie earth that covers her.
Upon Prew his Maid
In this little urne is laid
Prewdence Baldwin (once my maid)
From whose happy spark here let
Spring the purple Violet.
Grave and headstone in mountain cemetery. Pie Town, New Mexico: photo by Russell Lee, June 1940
Grave and headstone in mountain cemetery. Pie Town, New Mexico: photo by Russell Lee, June 1940
Newly-dug grave, Rochester, Pennsylvania: photo by John Vachon, January 1941
Grave, Kempton, West Virginia. The cemetery is on the top of a hill behind the town photo by John Vachon, May 1939
Old grave near Cruger, Mississippi: photo by Russell Lee, September 1938
Decoration of grave in Spanish-American cemetery, Penasco, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, July 1940
Mexican grave, near Santon, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939
Spanish-American grave in rural section of Bernalillo County, New Mexico: photo by Russell Lee, April 1940
Grave in the cemetery at Santa Rita, New Mexico. Santa Rita is a copper mining town, inhabitants mostly Mexican: photo by Russell Lee, April 1940
Mexican grave, Raymondville, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939
Mexican grave, Raymondville, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939
Mexican grave, Raymondville, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939
Mexican graves, Raymondville, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939
Mexican grave, Raymondville, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939
Mexican grave, Raymondville, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939
Mexican grave, Raymondville, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939
New Mexican graves in cemetery, Raymondville, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, February 1939
Decoration of graves at New Roads, Louisiana on All Saints' Day: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938
Decorated graves in cemetery at New Roads, Louisiana on All Saints' Day, with chickens eating the flowers: photo by Russell Lee, November 1938
Robert Herrick 1591-1674): Upon a Child. An Epitaph; Upon a Child; Upon Prew his Maid, from Hesperides, 1648
Photos from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress
Photos from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress
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