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blake-379	Cauchi, Francesca	Blake’s Juxtapositional Prosodic Method in “Holy Thursday” (Innocence)	2025		.htm	application/xhtml+xml	2777	89	50	In other words, the battalion-like “companies” of charity children on the left-hand side of the line are juxtaposed to the angelic-like host on the right—​a positioning that recalls Christ’s seat at the right hand of God (1 Peter 3:22; Acts 7:55-56). unison is likened to a thunderous aural assault upon the celestial realm; the beadles who in the first stanza had “walkd before” their charges are now seated “beneath” the cherubic children in accordance with the synoptic Gospels: “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God” (Luke 18:16); and the ironic epithet “wise guardians” is a warning to the old beadles to exercise less of the guard and more of the guardian angel lest they find themselves driven from the “door” of heaven—​the door, moreover, that is eternally open to the “little children.”	cache/blake-379.htm	txt/blake-379.txt