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(a) The Little Boy Lost (b) The Little Boy Found by Allen Ginsberg album cover

(a) The Little Boy Lost (b) The Little Boy Found

by Allen Ginsberg

About This Song

About "(a) The Little Boy Lost (b) The Little Boy Found" by Allen Ginsberg

A second take on the lost-and-found boy diptych, Ginsberg's delivery more resigned. The folk arrangement is sparse, almost skeletal, letting Blake's words hang in the air. The tension is between abandonment and rescue, the father's grief a quiet stormβ€”a lullaby for a child who may never truly be found.