[lbo-talk] A sensible on Jobs from Jonathan Schwarz

[Carrol Cox]

And oh do you tie yourself in knots if you try to gloss this. 
"Charter/chartered" alone plays more tricks than I've ever traced out.

Carrol

On 10/11/2011 12:15 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> Blake writes:
>
> I wandered through each chartered street,
>    Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
> And mark in every face I meet,
>    Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
>
> In every cry of every man,
>    In every infant's cry of fear,
> In every voice, in every ban,
>    The mind-forged manacles I hear:
>
> How the chimney-sweeper's cry
>    Every blackening church appals,
> And the hapless soldier's sigh
>    Runs in blood down palace-walls.
>
> But most, through midnight streets I hear
>    How the youthful harlot's curse
> Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
>    And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
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