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"A little boy lost" is a poem of the Songs of Experience series created in 1794 after the Songs of Innocence (1789) by the poet named William Blake. The "The Little Boy Found" responds to the poems initial conversation, about . The poem focuses on the theme of religious persecution. A boy is burned for his ego and leads to the poem "The Little Boy Lost" who follows a wisp and then is found by God in the prelude of "The Little Boy Found". ==The Poem== Nought loves another as itself, Nor venerates another so, Nor is it possible to thought A greater than itself to know. 'And, father, how can I love you Or any of my brothers more? I love you like the little bird That picks up crumbs around the door.' The Priest sat by and heard the child; In trembling zeal he seized his hair, He led him by his little coat, And all admired the priestly care. And standing on the altar high, 'Lo, what a fiend is here! said he: 'One who sets reason up for judge Of our most holy mystery.' The weeping child could not be heard, The weeping parents wept in vain: They stripped him to his little shirt, And bound him in an iron chain, And burned him in a holy place Where many had been burned before; The weeping parents wept in vain. Are such thing done on Albion's shore? 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Little Boy Lost」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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