Holy Thursday (Notebook)



Holy Thursday

Is this a holy thing to see In a rich & fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery? Fed with cold & usurous hand?

Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song of joy? And so great a number poor? 'Tis 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. 'Tis eternal winter there.

But where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall: Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall. ________________________________________

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2nd reading:
An Answer to parson

Why of the sheep do you not learn peace Because I dont want you to shear my fleece

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44. The Kid p.105 rev 45. A little Vagabond (Notebook) p.105 rev The Little Vagabond 46. The Question Answer'd p.103 rev Several Questions Answered 47. The Chimney Sweeper (Notebook) p.105 6& 103 rev    The Chimney Sweeper (Blake, 1794) 48. Lacedemonian Instruction p.103 rev 49. Riches (Blake) p.103 rev 50. An Answer to parson p.103 rev 51. Holy Thursday (Notebook) p.103 rev 52. The Angel (Blake) p.103 rev 53. "The look of love alarms…" p.103 rev 54. "Soft deceit & Idleness…" p.103 rev 55. "Little fly…" p.101 rev The Fly (Blake) 56. Motto to the Songs of Innocence & of Experience p.101 rev 57. "Her whole Life is an Epigram, smack-smooth & nobly pen'd…"    p.100 rev 58. "O I cannot cannot find…" p.100 rev 59. Several Questions Answered p.99 rev 60. "Let the Brothels of Paris be opened…" p.99-98 rev 61. "When Klopsotck England defied…" p.5 62. "I say I shan't live for five years…" p.10 rev 63. "The Hebrew Nation did not write it…" p.39 rev