Following are the first three stanzas of William Blake’s poem “The Fly.” Read the poem, and then choose the letter of the best answer to the following question.

The Fly

Little Fly,

Thy summer’s play

My thoughtless hand

Has brushed away.

Am not I

a fly like thee?

Or art thou not

A man like me?

For I dance,

and drink, and sing,

Till some blind hand

Shall brush my wing.

By: William Blake

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