The line break between stanzas two and three moves from the idea that the child is sleeping innocently to the mother's worry that the child might be dead ("the sleep of oblivion"). This ...
the dress lies ruined on the grass The final two lines of stanza three are more bleak ... the girl walks off the overpass This next line carries the implication of suicide. As we are still ...
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