... poor children. The loss of innocence is a theme Blake raises in several of the songs. "The Sick Rose" of the Songs of Experience works as an eye-opener to the corrupt behaviour occurring at the time. It's seems that Blake is showing how child prostitution was, and is, corruptive and wrong. The ... only could harm the man and girl involved in the sexual act, but could also pass on to the man's wife and any children she later birthed. An appropriate contrast to "The Sick Rose" is "The Blossom". As part of the Songs of Innocence it is a reminder that Blake did not ... joy," from "The Sick R...

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