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Home: Poetry: William Blake: The Fly
| THE FLY |
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a poem by William Blake
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- Little Fly,
- Thy summer's play
- My thoughtless hand
- Has brushed away.
- Am not I
- A fly like thee?
- Or art not thou
- A man like me?
- For I dance
- And drink, and sing,
- Till some blind hand
- Shall brush my wing.
- If thought is life
- And strength and breath
- And the want
- Of thought is death;
- Then am I
- A happy fly,
- If I live,
- Or if I die.
| "The Fly" is reprinted from Songs of Innocence and Experience. William Blake. London: Basil Montague Pickering, 1866. |
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