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Literature/English Heritage:
Songs of
Experience:
26-THE
CHIMNEY SWEEPER
A little
black thing in the snow,
Crying
"weep! weep!"in notes of woe!
"Where are
thy father and mother? Say!'ó
"They are
both gone up to the church to pray.
"Because I
was happy upon the heath,
And smiled
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 and dance and sing,
They think
they have done me no injury,
And are
gone to praise God and his priest and king,
Who make up
a heaven of our misery."
27-NURSE'S
SONG
When voices
of children are heard on the green,
And
whisperings are in the dale,
The days of
my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face
turns green and pale.
Then come
home, my children, the sun is gone down,
And the
dews of night arise;
Your spring
and your day are wasted in play,
And your
winter and night in disguise.
28-THE SICK
ROSE
O rose,
thou art sick!
The
invisible worm,
That flies
in the night,
In the
howling storm,
Has found
out thy bed
Of crimson
joy,
And his
dark secret love
Does thy
life destroy.
29-THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy
summer's play
My
thoughtless hand
Has brushed
away.
Am not I
A fly like
thee?
Or art not
thou
A man like
me?
For I dance
And drink,
and sing,
Till some
blind hand
Shall brush
my wing.
If thought
is life
And
strength and breath
And the
want
Of thought
is death;
Then am I
A happy
fly,
If I live,
Or if I
die.
30-THE
ANGEL
I dreamt a
dream! What can it mean?
And that I
was a maiden Queen
Guarded by
an Angel mild:
Witless woe
was ne'er beguiled!
And I wept
both night and day,
And he
wiped my tears away;
And I wept
both day and night,
And hid
from him my heart's delight.
So he took
his wings, and fled;
Then the
morn blushed rosy red.
I dried my
tears, and armed my fears
With
ten-thousand shields and spears.
Soon my
Angel came again;
I was
armed, he came in vain;
For the
time of youth was fled,
And grey
hairs were on my head.
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