Holy Thursday

By William Blake

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

From Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy B, object 51 (Bentley 33, Erdman 33, Keynes 33) "HOLY THURSDAY"

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