William Blake (1757-1827). The Little Boy Lost. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

The Little Boy Lost

By William Blake (1757–1827)


I ‘FATHER! father! where are you going?
O, do not walk so fast.
Speak, father, speak to your little boy,
Or else I shall be lost.’

The night was dark, no father was there;	5
The child was wet with dew;
The mire was deep, and the child did weep,
And away the vapour flew.