...reply; He is watchful while they are in peace, For they know when their Shepherd is nigh. William Blake 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...

...distortions with which our streets abounded." m CHAPTER V , PARISH CHILDREN AND POOR APPRENTICES " When my mother died I was very young, And my father...! ' So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep." BLAKK. ONE of the worst results of the social conditions of London in the early eighteenth century...

...1 1 aged] rev'rend Is I. in ISoon. wise guardians] the guardians Isl. in Moon. The Chimney Sweeper When my mother died I was very young, And my father...! ' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There 's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, 5 That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd :...

...soot was washed off under the pump on a Saturday night. They were like Tom Dacre in the poem : . . . There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curled like a lamb's back was shav'd; so I said "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare You know that the soot cannot...

...the pump on a Saturday night. They were like Tom Dacre in the poem : . . . There's little Tom Dacrc, who cried when his head That curled like a lamb's back was shav'd; so I said 'Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare You know that the soot cannot...

...chimney-sweeping machines instead of climbing boys. 1 William Blake's oft-quoted verse is here suggestive : " When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me when yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ' Weep ! Weep ! Weep ! Weep 1 ' So your chimneys I sweep and...

...way as real sweeps in these years were giving evidence to coroners' courts and committees of enquiry: When my mother died I was very young. And my father...cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep. The facts that he recounts are the familiar facts of the late eighteenth-century...

...'Who killed Cock Robin?' the sparrow is an archer, the robin his victim. Plate 12: The Chimney Sweeper When my mother died I was very young, And my father...cry weep weep weep weep, So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep. Theres little Tom Dacre. who cried when his head That curl'd like a lambs back,...

...Earth EnRP; NAEL-2; NOBE; OAEL-2 SONGS OF INNOCENCE (the fottmving 12 poems) The Chimney Sweeper 86 37 These are the desolate, dark weeks when nature...man. (1. 1 -3) 38 (They whine and whistle) among the & in soot I sleep. 87 And the Angel told Tom if he'd be a good boy, He'd have God for his father &...

...male...». (Frye, Agghiacciante simmetria. Uno studio su William Blake, p. 50). The Chimney Sweeper When my mother died I was very young, And my Father...«'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!» So your chimneys I sweep, & in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curl'd like a lamb's back,...