AO2 Quotes (Songs of Innocence) Flashcards
On a cloud I saw a child…
And he laughing said to me/”Pipe a song about a Lamb!” (Introduction:I)
Such, such were the joys…
When we all, girls and boys/In our youth time wee seen/On the Ecchoing Green. (The Ecchoing Green:I)
Little Lamb…
who made thee? (The Lamb:I)
I am black…
but O! my soul is white/White as an angel is the English child/But I am black as of bereav’d of light. (The Little Black Boy:I)
Come out from the grove…
my love and care/And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice. (The Little Black Boy:I)
(The Little Black Boy will)
shade (the little English boy) from the heat. (The Little Black Boy:I)
When your head’s bare…
You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair. (The Chimney Sweeper:I)
Were all of them…
locked up in coffins of black. (The Chimney Sweeper:I)
If he’d be a good boy…
…he’d have God for his father, and never want joy. (The Chimney Sweeper:I)
So if all do their duty…
they need not fear harm. (The Chimney Sweeper:I)
Speak father…
to your little boy. (The Little Boy Lost:I)
The night was dark…
no father was there. (The Little Boy Lost:I)
Led by the wandering light…
Began to cry; but God, ever nigh/Appear’d like his father in white. (The Little Boy Found:I)
For Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love…
Is God, our father dear/And Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love/Is Man, his child and care. (The Divine Image:I)
And all must love…
the human form/In heathen, Turk, or Jew. (The Divine Image:I)
