The poem describes a black boy who was born in the southern wild. Though his skin is black, his soul is white. His mother teaches him under a tree about God, who gives light and heat to flowers, trees, beasts and men. She tells him that their black bodies are just clouds, and when they have learned to bear the heat, the clouds will vanish and they will hear God's voice and rejoice together like lambs.
The poem describes a black boy who was born in the southern wild. Though his skin is black, his soul is white. His mother teaches him under a tree about God, who gives light and heat to flowers, trees, beasts and men. She tells him that their black bodies are just clouds, and when they have learned to bear the heat, the clouds will vanish and they will hear God's voice and rejoice together like lambs.
The poem describes a black boy who was born in the southern wild. Though his skin is black, his soul is white. His mother teaches him under a tree about God, who gives light and heat to flowers, trees, beasts and men. She tells him that their black bodies are just clouds, and when they have learned to bear the heat, the clouds will vanish and they will hear God's voice and rejoice together like lambs.
The Poetry of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: "Why did you let your eyes so rest on me. And hold your breath between? In all the ages this can never be. As if it had never been."
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)