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…showed last 75 words of 879 total…has with life. Blake uses words such as, "striving," "bound and weary" to create a struggle between innocence and experience. The stanza closes with the way in which the baby finds refuge amidst the chaos, "to sulk upon my mother's breast." Because the baby will soon get older, he will not have the breast to turn to. He will soon learn, just as his mother did, the way to survive in a cruel, cruel, world.