On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying of a Cough

He laments the loss of his niece Anne the child of his elder sister in the poem On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough. The two-year-old infant is lovingly remembered by Milton. The child entered the supernal realm because the human condition having been enlightened by her brief presence was unfit to bear her any longer according to the poem's conceits Classical references and theological undertones.