“And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love,
And these black bodies and this sunburnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.”

—  William Blake, The Little Black Boy

The Little Black Boy, st. 4
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

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