The Fly By William Blake

The Fly is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794.

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William Blake, ‘The Fly’


Little Fly
Thy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance
And drink & sing;
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing. 

If thought is life
And strength & breath:
And the want
Of thought is death;

Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die. 
 *Songs of Innocence and Experience*
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