Chimneys have been around for years and are not the cleanest places in the house. There is a lot of soot that builds up in chimneys and gets stuck inside the chimney that you can't see unless you get in there to look. Just like any mess, someone has to clean it up. Nowadays we have an easier method to do such dirty jobs, but in the past, easy was not how chimney cleaning was described. To actually enter the chimneys, you would have to be very small. Children were given the unfortunate task of cleaning these chimneys. The children tasked with cleaning the chimneys were sometimes as young as four years old and most of them were orphans. The work was also dangerous. Children may get stuck and suffocate or suffer burns and bruises regularly. This was obviously something that the poet William Blake cared deeply about. William Blake, one of the world's greatest Romantic poets, titled not one but two of his poems "The Chimney Sweep." One of these is in his collection Songs of Innocence and the other is in the co. Songs of Experience...