English child the knowledge , offering him covers against the sun , grasping the thought that now that they are equals , there 's already a way for the white child to love him as he is . The slow melancholic rhythm of the poem suggests that it needs sufficient emphatic time for its lesson to be appreciated . And true enough , the poem and its warranted message took time , some decades approximately , for people to see its value . Thoroughly , William Blake had profoundly evoked...











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