...God like lambs we joy: I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear, To lean in joy upon our fathers knee. And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him and he will then love me. (21-8) The poem seems to trace a course directly opposite to that traced by the Introduction to Innocence:...

...God like lambs we joy; 111 shade him from the heat till he can bear, To lean in joy upon our fathers knee. And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him and he will then love me.154 This looks like a dream of the obliteration of race: the two boys are to be free of the clouds...

...bad angels, but he goes beyond this moral dualism by presenting the black boy as teaching the white: When I from black and he from white cloud free, And...silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. (125) Color is therefore superficial and unimportant: black and white skins are merely the outward...

...to bear, The cloud will vanish; we shall hear his voice, Saying: 'Come out from the grove, my love & care, And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.'...silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. William Ela^e EAMON GRENNAN First love? Who knows. Something in the mother tongue, I suppose. What...

...care, And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice." ' Thus did my mother say, and kissed me; And thus 1 say to little English boy. When I from black and he...silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. Laughing Song When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing...

...about Greenfield, Andrew Thomson and Stedman is from the British Dictionary of National Biography. And round the tent of God like lambs we joy, I'll...silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. Greenfield was certainly aware of Blake's other talents, since the latter name appears under the most...

...lambs we joy'), the final image of the poem is of the black boy's identification with the white boy: And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. Blake's poem is part of a Christian tradition, existing alongside that of the Hamite curse, that pictured...

...I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear To lean in joy upon our father's knee; And then I II stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. The students were torn between Blake's suggestion of the protective power of blackness and his setting...

...a radical view of racial differences as 'clouds' which mask the underlying identity of all humans: When I from black and he from white cloud free And...silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me.5° The notion of the body as a cloud which will be discarded in the afterlife, allowing the essential...

...golden tent like lambs rejoice. ' " Thus did my mother say, and kissed me, And thus I say to litde English boy. When I from black, and he from white...silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. THE BLOSSOM Merry, merry sparrow! Under leaves so green A happy blossom Sees you, swift as arrow. Seek...