William Blake, Holy Thursday, Songs of Innocence (1789)
- ’Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
- The children walking two and two, in red and blue and green,
- Grey-headed beadles walk'd before, with wands as white as snow,
- Till into the high dome of Paul’s they like Thames' waters flow.
- O what a multitude they seem'd, these flowers of London town!
- Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own.
- The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
- Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
- Now like a mighty wind they raise to Heaven the voice of song,
- Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of Heaven among.
- Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor;
- Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
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