On Reading Blake's 'Little Black Boy'

Two centuries or even more gone by Since William Blake wrote 'The little black boy' He told in verse how black skin equalled white And in what he wrote of course the poet was right. He wrote the famous verses at a time When to be black was looked on as a crime A lesson in human love perhaps one day That others might learn from what he had to say. His verses put him in a higher place When he wrote of the equality of race And in history the great poet made his mark When he preached that white was no greater than dark. But even in the twenty first century Some with the Poet's views still do not agree Some still say black is not as good as white But of course these people live in darker light. A lesson here for all humanity From bard who lived in eighteenth century That racial discrimination is unwise As all different races equal in God's eyes.