Romantic Poetry WebQuest

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William Blake (1757-1827)

"Holy Thursday: Is this a holy thing to see"

              1Is this a holy thing to see

              2In a rich and fruitful land,

              3Babes reduc'd to misery,

              4Fed with cold and usurous hand?

              5Is that trembling cry a song?

              6Can it be a song of joy?

              7And so many children poor?

              8It is a land of poverty!

              9And their sun does never shine,

            10And their fields are bleak and bare,

            11And their ways are fill'd with thorns:

            12It is eternal winter there.

            13For where-e'er the sun does shine,

            14And where-e'er the rain does fall,

            15Babe can never hunger there,

            16Nor poverty the mind appall.

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