William Blake

Holy Thursday (from Songs of Experience)

Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
 
Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so many children poor?
It is a land of poverty!
 
And their sun does never shine,
And their fields are bleak and bare,
And their ways are filled with thorns:
It is eternal winter there.
 
For where’er the sun does shine,
And where’er the rain does fall,
Babes should never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.

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