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In his poem The Little Girl Lost, William Blake describes the experience of the lonely Lyca who has become separated from her parents, and has “wandered long”. She says:
“Sweet sleep come to meUnderneath this treeDo father, mother weep?Where can Lyca sleep.Lost in desert wildIs your little childHow can Lyca sleepIf her mother weep?”from: Songs of Experience, 1792.