There's little Tom Dacre who cried when his head
That curl'd like a lamb's back, was shav'd, so I said,
"Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare,
You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair."
Question:
A. Identify the poet.
B. Identify the title of the poem and from which volume this quoted part is taken
C. What does the poem indicate?
AWilliam Blake.
B. The Chimney Sweeper is taken from Songs of Innocence.
C. This poem indicates the conditions which make religion a consolation, a prospect of "illusory happiness."
