The Little Boy Found
The Little Boy Found - context Summary
Songs of Innocence, 1789
Published in Blake's 1789 Songs of Innocence, this brief pastoral poem presents a simple narrative of a lost child guided home by a protective, fatherlike divine figure. The episode exemplifies the collection’s themes of childhood vulnerability and spiritual guardianship: a wandering light leads the boy from a dangerous fen to reunion with his mother, suggesting innocence preserved by compassionate providence rather than human agency.
Read Complete AnalysesThe little boy lost in the lonely fen, Led by the wandering light, Began to cry, but God, ever nigh, Appeared like his father, in white. He kissed the child, and by the hand led, And to his mother brought, Who in sorrow pale, through the lonely dale, The little boy weeping sought.
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