the chimney sweeper
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If All Do Their Duty They Need Not Fear Harm
When comparing William Blake's poems The Chimney Sweeper the idea, if you have faith in God you will be protected is supported by the relationship between those with faith being warm and hopeful to those with out faith being cold and hopeless.
In the first poem the boys lived a terrible life. "My father sold me while yet my tongue, could scarcely cry weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep." These young boys were abandoned by their parents and sold into a life of child labor. They were alone, scared and cold. In Toms dream God touched him, all the boys were clean and white not covered in soot like in their real lives. In the dream the sun in heaven, "Laughing they run and wash in the river and shine in the sun" warmed them.
The fact that the boys are dead in Tom's dream does not bother him, he is not afraid actually it gives him hope. In the last stanza the boys get ready for work in the cold morning...