...sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white ; Or a nest of yoiing doves in a large open cage, When they play all in...without anger or rage, How much may we learn from the sight ! That is to talk baby language. When the voices of children are heard on the green, And laughing...

...young lambs Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play...without anger or rage, How much may we learn from the sight. Watts does interestingly what Blake was later to do superlatively.17 It becomds clear that patterns...

...still." He was in just the setting to compose such lines. In Song 30, on "innocent play," verse 2 reads: "If we had been ducks we might dabble in mud, Or dogs,...we might play till it ended in blood : So foul and so fierce are their natures. But Thomas and William, and such pretty names Should be cleanly and harmless...