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William Blake's "London"

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on August 18, 2008 at 1:25:58 pm
 

 

I wander through each chartered street,

Near where the chartered Thames does flow,

And mark in every face I meet

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every man,

In every Infant's cry of fear,

In every voice, in every ban,

The mind-forged manacles I hear.

How the Chimney-sweeper's cry

Every black'ning Church appalls;[1]

And the hapless Soldier's sigh

Runs in blood down Palace walls.

But most through midnight streets I hear

How the youthful Harlot's curse

Blasts the new-born Infant's tear,

And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

Footnotes

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