QuoteQuest“When my mother died I was very young,And my father sold me while yet my tongueCould scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!'weep!So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: William Blake
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
The Chimney Sweeper, st. 1
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Blake, William. (n.d.). Wikiquote: William Blake. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Blake
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