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     SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE
     
     HOLY THURSDAY
     
     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 son 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.

     SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE

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