<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=38378" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Little Vagabond</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;<br>But the Alehouse is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.<br>Besides, I can tell where I am used well;<br>Such usage in heaven will never do well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,<br>And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,<br>We’d sing and we’d pray all the livelong day,<br>Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the Parson might preach, and drink, and sing,<br>And we’d be as happy as birds in the spring;<br>And modest Dame Lurch, who is always at church,<br>Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And God, like a father, rejoicing to see<br>His children as pleasant and happy as He,<br>Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel,<br>But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Blake">William Blake</a> from <i>Songs of Experience</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=38378" data-title="The Little Vagabond de William Blake" data-description="Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;/But the Alehouse is healthy, and pleasant, and warm./Besides, I can tell where I am used well;/Such usage in heaven will never do well./But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,/And a pleasant..."></div> </div> </div>

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