I like this sonnet very much as well, though I don't agree that it "needs" the epigraph at all. I think the title would be enough. Surely, if there is to be an epigraph, the final sentence of it could be omitted.
Expertly done. While this is purely a matter of taste, however, the last two lines fall just a trifle flat for me, exclaiming tendentiously about "man" and reminding us that babies are innocent.
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