One
poem or two poems?
With the exception of one early edition of
Songs and "The Little Boy Lost's" original appearance in "An
Island in the Moon," "The Little Boy Lost" and "The Little Boy Found"
always appear together. Common Sense therefore tells one to
read them as one poem and in the context of their illustrations; which
also link the poems together as "The Little Boy Lost" contains "the wandering
light" described in "The Little Boy Found." Furthermore, although
Blake's punctuation is notoriously arbitrary, the last line of "The Little
Boy Lost" is unpunctuated, suggesting that the second poem follows the
first.
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