This has always been one of my favorite poems. But, since the last few days, I have not been able to get this poem out of my head...
The Fly
William Blake
Thy summer's 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, and sing:
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath:
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
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, and sing:
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath:
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
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