The Little Boy Found a comparison of several of the extant copies of the poem, their print date, their order in that particular binding of the book of poems, and their holding institution: The Little Boy Found "The Little Boy Found" is a poem by William Blake first published in the collection "Songs of Innocence" in 1789. "Songs of Innocence" was printed using illuminated printing, a style Blake created. By integrating the images with the poems the reader was better able to understand the meaning behind each of Blake's poems. "The Little Boy Found" is a sequel to "The Little Boy Lost". The two
Little Boy Blue but the rhyme may be much older. It may be alluded to in Shakespeare's King Lear (III, vi) when Edgar, masquerading as Mad Tom, says: <poem>Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepheard? And for one blast of thy minikin mouth It has been argued that Little Boy Blue was intended to represent Cardinal Wolsey, who was the son of an Ipswich butcher, who may have acted as a hayward to his father's livestock, but there is no corroborative evidence to support this assertion. Boy Blue, until issue 81, was one of the main characters of the long-running comic book series "Fables".