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William Blake - LondonWilliam Blake - London
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I wandered through each chartered street,   Near where the chartered Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet,   Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every man,   In every infant`s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban,   The mind-forged manacles I hear: How the chimney-sweeper`s cry   Every blackening church appals, And the hapless soldier`s sigh   Runs in blood down palace-walls. But most, through midnight streets I hear   How the youthful harlot`s curse Blasts the new-born infant`s tear,   And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
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