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Spring, sound the flute

Author: William Blake Year: 1789 Length: 288 characters Difficulty: medium Public domain

Blake capitalises nouns in the middle of lines and the lines are only two or three words long, so Shift and return work together.

Sound the Flute! Now it's mute. Birds delight Day and Night. Nightingale In the dale Lark in Sky Merrily Merrily Merrily to welcome in the Year. Little Boy Full of joy, Little Girl Sweet and small, Cock does crow So do you, Merry voice Infant noise Merrily Merrily to welcome in the Year

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Spring is one of the shortest poems in Songs of Innocence, which Blake issued in 1789. The lines are often only two or three words long, and the plate shows a child with a lamb. This text follows the copy of 1826, one of the last Blake printed and coloured himself. Wikisource carries that copy page by page.

About this text

Spring is one of the shortest poems in Songs of Innocence, which Blake issued in 1789. The lines are often only two or three words long, and the plate shows a child with a lamb. This text follows the copy of 1826, one of the last Blake printed and coloured himself. Wikisource carries that copy page by page.

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Blake capitalises nouns in the middle of lines and the lines are only two or three words long, so Shift and return work together.

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