London, print from Copy AA of Songs of Innocence and Experience.1826. In the Collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, located on Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England.
Poetry of William Blake
LONDON
I wander through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
A 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.
Lethargica - William Blake's London
