helpless quotes

My mother groaned! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud Like a fiend hid in a cloud.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'Infant Sorrow'.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.345^6.

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