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William Blake
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Songs of Experience
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The Chimney Sweep
Songs Of Experience
The Chimney Sweep
A little black thing among the snow,
Crying “’weep! ’weep!” in notes of woe!
“Where are thy father & mother? say?”
“They are both gone up to the church to pray.
“Because I was happy upon the heath,
And smil’d among the winter’s snow,
They clothed me in the clothes of death,
And taught me to sing the notes of woe.
“And because I am happy & dance & sing,
They think they have done me no injury,
And are gone to praise God & his Priest & King,
Who make up a heaven of our misery.”
Compare the accompanying poem
The Chimney Sweeper
in the Songs of Innocence.
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William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Songs of Innocence
Songs of Experience
Introduction
Earth’s Answer
The Clod and the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Little Girl Lost
The Little Girl Found
The Chimney Sweep
Nurse’s Song
The Sick Rose
The Fly
The Angel
The Tyger
My Pretty Rose-Tree
Ah! Sun-Flower
The Lilly
The Garden of Love
The Little Vagabond
London
The Human Abstract
Infant Sorrow
A Poison Tree
A Little Boy Lost
A Little Girl Lost
To Tirzah
The Schoolboy
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
The Divine Image
The Book of Urizen