leeping infant ("The Cradle Song") and the playing and laughing child ("The Ecchoing Green") are used throughout the text. Even colors that are known as symbols for purity or freshness, such as the color green ("Laughing Song"), which Blake uses to describe woods and meadows and the color white ("The Little Boy Found") used to describe skin and snow are used numerous times in Blake's text.
             All of these images are religious symbols found in the Bible. Blake uses these well-known symbols to enhance the readers understanding of the purity he is trying to portray. The images of the lamb and the sleeping child can be traced back to Christ's birth, the Nativity scene, which was his most pure and innocent moment. The images of the birds, not frequently associated with the Bible, are also well-known symbols of innocence because they pos
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