Epitaphs for a Child

1 Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed!
Watts
2 The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues
Cicero
3 Children, ay, forsooth,
They bring their own love with them when they come
Ingelow
4 What would the world be to us if children were no more?
Longfellow
5 Oh, for boyhood’s time of June, crowding years in one brief moon
Whittier
6 Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine,
Till angels wake thee with a note like thine
Samuel Johnson
7 No jewel is as perfect as the innocence of childhood
8 Sleep my little one, sleep
9 Children are a heritage of the Lord
Psalms 127:3
10 The Child is the father of the Man
Wordsworth
11 Little Boy Blue has gone away
12 God’s garden has need of little flowers
13 Remembering a tiny angel
14 Lord, we give you our littlest angel
15 Budded/blossomed on earth to bloom in Heaven
16 Our baby is in Heaven
17 Our littlest angel who went back to Heaven
18 Let thy child rest in hope and rise in glory
19 Awaiting the touch of a little hand, the smile of a little face
E. Field
20 Children are the keys to paradise
R.H. Stoddard
21 ‘Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away
Longfellow
22 Be still, little one
23 So sweet, so small, so soon
24 I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always
As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be
Munsch
25 Ours for a little while, with Jesus forever
26 Sleep on sweet baby and take thy rest
God called thee home
He thought it best
27 Our little angel
28 So little, yet so loved
29 Trust and warmth, vital in the life of a child
30 Our precious boy
31 Precious memories of a little angel
32 We will love you always