This print is thought to illustrate lines from Shakespeare's Macbeth:

 

And Pity, like a naked new-born babe,

Striding the blast, or heav'n's cherubim hors'd

Upon the sightless couriers of the air

 

Blake shows a female cherub leaning down to snatch the baby from its mother. His image refers closely to Shakespeare's text, although it also carries a sense of one of the artist's own Truths: 'Energy is the only life and is from the Body'.