The Shepherd (Blake)
Poem by William Blake / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"The Shepherd" is a poem from William Blake's Songs of Innocence (1789). This collection of songs was published individually four times before it was combined with the Songs of Experience for 12 editions which created the joint collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794). Blake produced all of the illuminated printings himself beginning in 1789. Each publication of the songs has the plates in a different order, and sixteen other plates were published posthumously.[2]
Ralph Vaughan Williams set the poem to music in his 1958 song cycle Ten Blake Songs.