Poems for Mothers: 'The Little Boy Found' by William Blake (1791)

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The Little Boy Lost

*William Blake (from Songs of Innocence, 1791)*

The little boy lost in the lonely fen, Led by the wand’ring light, Began to cry, but God ever nigh, Appeard like his father in white. He kissed the child & by the hand led And to his mother brought, Who in sorrow pale, thro’ the lonely dale Her little boy weeping sought.


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