William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908.
Songs of ExperienceThe Chimney-sweeper
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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 clothèd 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.’