 | Northrop Frye - 2005 - 529 pages
...sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, That curl'd like a lambs back, was shav'd: so I said "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your...cannot spoil your white hair." And so he was quiet, & that very night As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight! That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe,... | |
 | William Blake - 2007 - 392 pages
...sleep. 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...cannot spoil your white hair.' And so he was quiet, & that very night, As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight, That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe,... | |
 | William Blake - 2007 - 60 pages
...sleep. 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...cannot spoil your white hair." And so he was quiet, & that very night, As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight, That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe,... | |
 | Robert Pattison - 2008 - 210 pages
...fellow sweeps : There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shave'd: so I said "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for...know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair." Blake had complained that to be reconciled to nature was the devil's work; in the Songs of Innocence,... | |
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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 
