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SONG FIRST BY A SHEPHERD by WILLIAM BLAKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WELCOME, STRANGER, TO THIS PLACE
Last Line: THE JEWEL HEALTH ADORNS HER NECK.
Subject(s): BIBLE; MYTHOLOGY;

Welcome stranger to this place,
Where joy doth sit on every bough,
Paleness flies from every face,
We reap not, what we do not sow.

Innocence doth like a Rose,
Bloom on every Maidens cheek;
Honor twines around her brows,
The jewel Health adorns her neck.



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