"The Cry of the Children," Elizabeth Barrett Browning, p.787

Most likely passage for the test:

"Your old earth," they say, "is very dreary;
Our young feet," they say, "are very weak!
Few paces we have taken, yet are weary--
Our grave rest is very far to seek.
Ask the aged why they weep, and not the children;
For the outside earth is cold;
And we young ones stand without, in our bewildering,
And the graves are for the old."

Context: Elizabeth Barrett Browning is criticizing the treatment of children, specifically child labor. She gives the children a voice. She argues it makes sense why an old man would weep, but children should not weep. Other young do not weep - young lambs or birds or fawns - only young human children.