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" Thames' waters flow. O what a multitude they seem'd, these flowers of London town! Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent... "
Life of William Blake: With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings - Page 41
by Alexander Gilchrist - 1880 - 431 pages
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...waters flow. O what a multitude they seem'd, these flowers of London town! Seated in companies, they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes...but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,...
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Complete Writings: With Variant Readings

William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
...flow. 5 O what a multitude they seem'd, these flowers of London town ! Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes...but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,...
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English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism

M. H. Abrams - 1975 - 494 pages
...waters flow. O what a multitude they seem'd, these flowers of London town! Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes...raise to heaven the voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderiags the seats of Heavens among. Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor;...
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Critical History of English Literature, Volume 1

David Daiches - 1969 - 356 pages
...waters flow. O what a multitude they seem'd, these flowers of London town! Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes...little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. 866 BLAKE, WORDSWORTH, AND COLERIDGE Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,...
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Vision and Disenchantment: Blake's Songs and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Heather Glen, Senior Lecturer Faculty of English Cambridge University and Fellow of New Hall Heather Glen - 1983 - 420 pages
...transcendent force of 'Pity', which is at their centre, is also central in Songs of Innocence: 'Then like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song', 'Then cherish pity; lest you drive an angel from your door.' Here, at the end of 'London', their evocation...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green." BoTP; CH; NAEL-2; PoE; UnPo; WiR Holy Thursday 91 tands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong...1—8) 69 No! let me taste the whole of it, fare l 92 Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel...
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The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama

Joseph McMinn - 1992 - 388 pages
...like a good number especially of the Songs of Innocence, seems at times perilously close to kitsch: The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands The concluding line, too, with its sudden direct appeal to the...
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Canti dell'innocenza e dell'esperienza

William Blake - 1993 - 206 pages
...waters flow. O what a multitude they seem'd, these flowers of London town! Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes...but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,...
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Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism

Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 pages
...transcendent force of 'Pity', which is at their centre, is also central in Songs of Innocence: 'Then like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song'. 'Then cherish pity; lest you drive an angel from your door.' Here, at the end of 'London', their evocation...
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William Blake: Selected Poems

William Blake - 1995 - 136 pages
...waters flow O what a multitude they seemd these flowers of London town Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own The hum of multitudes...there but multitudes of lambs Thousands of little boys &. girls raising their innocent hands Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song...
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