My mother groan'd! my father wept.
Into the dangerous world I leapt:
Helpless, naked, piping loud:
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving against my swaddling bands.
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.
William Blake (1757-1827) Infant Sorrow
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