XXI + 

I’ve heard, the moss is spotted red + 

With drops of that poor infant’s blood: + 

But kill a new-born infant thus + 

I do not think she could. + 

Some say, if to the Pond you go, + 

And fix on it a steady view, + 

The shadow of a babe you trace, + 

A baby and a baby’s face, + 

And that it looks at you; + 

Whene’er you look on it, ’tis plain + 

The baby looks at you again. + 