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Holy Thursday
by: William Blake (1757-1827)
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land, --
Babes reduced to
misery
,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so many children poor?
It is a land of
poverty
!
And their son does never shine,
And their fields are bleak and bare,
And their ways are filled with thorns:
It is eternal
winter
there.
For where'er the sun does shine,
And where'er the rain does fall,
Babes should never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.
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poems by William Blake