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    This poem describes the suffering witnessed by the speaker wandering through the streets of London. In every person they see, they see marks of weakness and woe, and they hear cries of fear and sorrow from men, infants, and soldiers. The chimney sweeps' cries appall the speaker, and they hear curses from harlots that destroy newborn infants and plague marriage. The speaker sees and hears signs of human suffering throughout the city of London.

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    This poem describes the suffering witnessed by the speaker wandering through the streets of London. In every person they see, they see marks of weakness and woe, and they hear cries of fear and sorrow from men, infants, and soldiers. The chimney sweeps' cries appall the speaker, and they hear curses from harlots that destroy newborn infants and plague marriage. The speaker sees and hears signs of human suffering throughout the city of London.

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    This poem describes the suffering witnessed by the speaker wandering through the streets of London. In every person they see, they see marks of weakness and woe, and they hear cries of fear and sorrow from men, infants, and soldiers. The chimney sweeps' cries appall the speaker, and they hear curses from harlots that destroy newborn infants and plague marriage. The speaker sees and hears signs of human suffering throughout the city of London.

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    LONDON Difficult words

    I wander thro' each charter'd street.


    Near where the charter'd Thames does flow  
    And mark in every face I meet
    Marks of weakness, marks of woe.  

    In every cry of every Man,  


    In every Infants cry of fear,
    In every voice: in every ban,  manacles: grilletes
    The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
     
    How the Chimney-sweepers cry
    Every blackning Church appalls,  appalls: horrorizar
    And the hapless Soldiers sigh  hapless: desafortunado
    Runs in blood down Palace walls
     
    But most thro' midnight streets I hear
    How the youthful Harlots curse
     harlots: prostitutes
    Blasts the new-born Infants tear
     blast: destroy
    And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse 
     blight: arruinar
     hearse: coche fúnebr

    WILLIAM

    BLAKE ( 1757 - 1827 )

    LONDON

    Songs of Experience (1794)

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