Songs of Innocence and of Experience · William Blake

Chapter 31: The Fly

Little Fly, Thy summer’s playMy thoughtless hand Has brushed away.

Am not I A fly like thee?Or art not thou A man like me?

For I dance, And drink, and sing,Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life And strength and breath,And the want Of thought is death;

Then am I A happy fly.If I live, Or if I die.