![]() ![]() ![]() There are two young females standing to the left who embrace. The illustration shows the Bard, a gowned bearded old man, playing a large celtic triangular harp to the listening youths and maidens: two children standing in the middle of the group, and six older youths. But much later, only after 1818(!), it was moved into Songs of Experience and became a terminal poem of all the collection of the Songs.īlake speaks here as the Ancient Bard and the Prophet (who also appeared in the Introduction to the Songs of Experience), trying “to reassure the ‘Youth of delight’ that the morning of regeneration is at hand, when the doubts and disputes of mortal life will be dispelled, even though many have fallen on the way.” Initially it was a part of the Songs of Innocence and printed as verso to The Little Black Boy however, in the latest issues it is commonly placed last, forming a connecting link with the Introduction to the Songs of Experience. The poem is not known in any draft or manuscript version. They stumble all night over bones of the deadĪnd wish to lead others when they should be led. ![]()
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