 | Stephen Bygrave - 1996 - 364 pages
...carried you past a detail that on re-reading might stop you short: the word 'sold' in the first stanza: 'When my mother died I was very young/ And my father sold me ... '. The child exists at once within an exploitative economic context. With hindsight it is shocking... | |
 | Susie J. Tharu - 1998 - 332 pages
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 | Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser - 1999 - 248 pages
...child, he cherishes the dream of a fellow sweeper and offers a pathetic hope for a heavenly father: When my mother died I was very young, And my father...scarcely cry "'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... | |
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WHEN my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry " 'weep ! 'weep ! 'weep ! 'weep !" So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. 
