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Chimney Sweep

from Innocence | Experience by Allan Douglas

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William Blake Source Poem

“The Chimney-Sweeper”

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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.

There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head,
That curled like a lamb’s back, was shaved; so I said,
‘Hush, Tom! never mind it, for, when your head’s bare,
You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.’

And so he was quiet, and that very night,
As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight!—
That thousands of sweepers, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all locked up in coffins of black.

And then came an angel, who had a bright key,
He opened the coffins, and set them all free;
Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing, they run
And wash in a river, and shine in the sun.

And so Tom awoke, and we rose in the dark,
We picked up our bags and our brushes, and we went back - back to work.

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from Innocence | Experience, released November 9, 2018

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