chimneysweeper

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Noun1.chimneysweeper - someone who cleans soot from chimneyschimneysweeper - someone who cleans soot from chimneys
chimneysweep, sweep
cleaner - someone whose occupation is cleaning
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We will never know his melodies for "The ChimneySweeper" or "Nurse's Song" because Blake"wanted the art of noting it down," someone else remarked.As solitary as he was, he apparently sang for friends too, maybe inlowbrow, comforting pubs, never far.
Three Blakes
(Sachs, 1988:8; translation--HE.) Oh, the chimneys On the ingenious dwellings of death, When Israel's dissolved body Drew through the air-- As a chimneysweeper a star welcomed him That became black Or was it a sunbeam?
Iconicity as the key to the poetry of Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)/Ikonisiteit as sleutel tot die digkuns van Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)
"chimneysweeper" as in Fair Maid of the West ("black
Emblems of folly in the first Othello: renaissance blackface, moor's coat, and "muckender"
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