... of experience, with words used such as "dangerous", "weary", "struggling" and "helpless"- is this the life of a poor, unprivileged child? If we consider the life of Dickens's child characters, notably "Oliver Twist", it would certainly seem so. Blake's view appears to be that the only hope for a child in his world is through imagination and song. The joyous infant is sung to ... ...

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