Read the stanza.

From “The Chimney Sweeper” When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue, Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.

In the first stanza from William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper,” how does the speaker get his job?

He is given to his employer as a favor to his mother.

He is exchanged with money through a bribe.

He is sold to his employer by is father.