...its simplicity and its childlike faith, and 'almost reminds us of one of the New Testament parables. When my mother died I was very young, And my father...tongue Could scarcely cry " 'Weep ! 'weep ! 'weep 1 'weep ! " So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. 1 Songs of Innocence : The Little Boy Found....

...Moon. 1 1 aged] rev'rend Isl. in Moon. wise guardians] the guardians Isl. in Moon. The Chimney Sweeper When my mother died I was very young, And my father...me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ' 'weep ! Veep ! 'weep ! Veep ! J So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There 's little Tom Dacre,...

...apparently "admitted" of 10 Blake pictures the child sweep in the Songs of Innocence, "The Chimney Sweeper," "When my mother died I was very young, And my father...'weep'! So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep." The poem was inserted in Montgomery's Chimney Sweepers' Friend (p. 343), under the following heading—"Communicated...

...them. That must have been an uncomfortable life — worse than any short bed with narrow blankets. When my mother died I was very young, And my father...me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry, " Weep 1 weep ! weep ! weep !* So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Daere, who...

...where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appal. THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER When my mother died I was very young. And my father...There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd : so I said, ' Hush, Tom ! never mind it, for when your head's...

...coverlet (11). The words put by Blake into the mouth of the chimney sweeper are in no way false. " When my mother died I was very young, And my father...* So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep." VI. Health and Morals of Apprentices Act. 1802.—We now come to the Act passed in 1802, which has...

...of hope for happiness in their work is more convincing than many lines of moralizing or preachment. When my mother died I was very young, And my father...like a lamb's back, was shaved : so I said "Hush, Tom I never mind it, for when your head's bare You know that the soot cannot spoil .your white hair." And...

...of hope for happiness in their work is more convincing than many lines of moralizing or preachment. When my mother died I was very young, And my father...while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry " 'weep ! 'weep 1 'weep ! 'weep I" So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried...

...During those hundred years Blake had written his poems (1788 and 1794) on the chimney sweep boy : " When .my mother died I was very young, And my father...! ' So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep." Dickens, in 1837, had written " Oliver Twist," with the vivid scene where Oliver just escapes apprenticeship...

...while they are in peace, For they know when their Shepherd is nigh. WiUiam 'Blokes THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER WHEN my mother died I was very young, And my father...'weep!' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. G 73 bare You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.' And so he was quiet, and that very...