William Blake, Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday
Is this a holy thing to see.
In a rich and fruitful land.
Babes reduced to misery.
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Fed with cold and usurous hand?
Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so many children poor?
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It is a land of poverty!
And their sun does never shine.
And their fields are bleak & bare.
And their ways are fill'd with thorns
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It is eternal winter there.
For where-e'er the sun does shine.
And where-e'er the rain does fall:
Babe can never hunger there,
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Nor poverty the mind appall .