The Little Boy Found

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1789

The little boy lost in the lonely fen,Led by the wand'ring light,Began to cry; but God ever nigh,Appeard like his father in white.

He kissed the child & by the hand ledAnd to his mother brought,Who in sorrow pale, thro' the lonely daleHer little boy weeping sought.

From Songs of Innocence and of Experience, via the English Wikisource transcription (1826 edition).

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