<P> Songs of Experience: </P> <P> The Chimney Sweeper </P> <P> A little black thing among the snow, Crying "' weep!' weep!" in notes of woe! "Where are thy father and mother? Say!"--"They are both gone up to the church to pray . Because I was happy upon the heath, And smiled among the winter's snow, They clothed me in the clothes of death, And taught me to sing the notes of woe . And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury, And are gone to praise God and his priest and king, Who make up a heaven of our misery ." </P> <P> In' The Chimney Sweeper' of Innocence, Blake can be interpreted to criticise the view of the Church that through work and hardship, reward in the next life would be attained; this results in an acceptance of exploitation observed in the closing lines' if all do their duty they need not fear harm .' Interestingly, Blake uses this poem to highlight the dangers of an innocent, naive view, demonstrating how this allows the societal abuse of child labour . </P>

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