William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.
The Chimney-sweeperWilliam Blake (17571827)
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Crying ‘’weep! ’weep!’ in notes of woe!
‘Where are thy father and mother, say?’—
‘They are both gone up to the church to pray.
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.
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.’