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Sharecropper's child suffering from rickets and malnutrition, Wilson cotton plantation, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.
William Blake: from Auguries of Innocence, c. 1801-1803
Sharecropper's child suffering from rickets and malnutrition, Wilson cotton plantation, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Son of a sharecropper, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Daughter of a sharecropper, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Sharecropper with his children in front of company house, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Sharecropper, Wilson cotton plantation, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Wife and child of sharecropper, Washington County, Arkansas
Wife and children of sharecropper, Washington County, Arkansas
Wife and child of sharecropper, Stortz cotton plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas
Sharecropper's son, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas
Well on submarginal hillside farm, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas
Ozark Mountains, Arkansas
Pity would be no more
If we did not make somebody Poor;
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
William Blake: The Human Abstract, from Songs of Experience, 1794