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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<title>Songs of Innocence and Experience, by William Blake</title>
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<h1><span class="title fs150">Songs of Innocence and of Experience</span>
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<h2><span class="author fs200">William Blake</span>
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<div class="titleverso">
<p>This web edition was originally published by <a href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/" target="_blank">eBooks@Adelaide</a>, and modified and compiled by <a href="https://raymond.li/" target="_blank">Raymo111</a> with better images from <a href="http://blakearchive.org/" target="_blank">http://blakearchive.org</a>.</p>
<p>Last updated October 11<sup>th</sup>, 2020.</p>
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<hr />
<div id="toc" class="contents">
<h3 style="text-align: center">Table of Contents</h3>
<div id="tocrow" class="row">
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<h4><a href="#Innocence">Innocence</a></h4>
<h5><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Shepherd">The Shepherd</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Ecchoing Green">Ecchoing Green</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Lamb">The Lamb</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Little Black Boy">The Little Black Boy</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Blossom">The Blossom</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Chimney Sweeper">The Chimney Sweeper</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Little Boy Lost">The Little Boy Lost</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Little Boy Found">The Little Boy Found</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Laughing Song">Laughing Song</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#A Cradle Song">A Cradle Song</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Divine Image">The Divine Image</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Holy Thursday">Holy Thursday</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Night">Night</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Spring">Spring</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Nurse's Song">Nurse's Song</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Infant Joy">Infant Joy</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#A Dream">A Dream</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#On Another's Sorrow:">On Another's Sorrow:</a></h5>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h4><a href="#Experience">Experience</a></h4>
<h5><a href="#Introduction 2">Introduction</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Earth's Answer">Earth's Answer</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Clod & the Pebble">The Clod & the Pebble</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Holy Thursday 2">Holy Thursday</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Little Girl Lost">The Little Girl Lost</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Little Girl Found">The Little Girl Found</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Chimney Sweeper">The Chimney Sweeper</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Nurses Song">Nurses Song</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Sick Rose">The Sick Rose</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Fly">The Fly</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Angel">The Angel</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Tyger">The Tyger</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#My Pretty Rose Tree">My Pretty Rose Tree</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Ah! Sun-flower">Ah! Sun-flower</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Lilly">The Lilly</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Garden of Love">The Garden of Love</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Little Vagabond">The Little Vagabond</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#London">London</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Human Abstract"></a></h5>
<h5><a href="#Infant Sorrow">Infant Sorrow</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#A Poison Tree">A Poison Tree</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#A Little Boy Lost 2">A Little Boy Lost</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#A Little Girl Lost 2">A Little Girl Lost 2</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#To Tirzah">To Tirzah</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The School Boy">The School Boy</a></h5>
<h5><a href="#The Voice of the Ancient Bard">The Voice of the Ancient Bard</a></h5>
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</div>
</div>
<hr />
<div id="Innocence">
<div class="description">
<p><em>Songs of Innocence</em> was the first of Blake's illuminated books published in 1789. The poems and artwork were
reproduced by copperplate engraving and colored with washes by hand. In 1794 he expanded the book to include <em>Songs
of Experience</em>. The spellings, punctuation and capitalizations are those of the original Blake manuscripts.</p>
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<div class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/1.jpg"><img src="Images/1.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Combined Title-page</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column raymo">
<p>SONGS OF INNOCENCE</p>
<p>and OF EXPERIENCE</p>
<p><i>Shewing the Two Contrary States<br />of the Human Soul</i></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/2.jpg"><img src="Images/2.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Frontispiece to <i>Songs of Innocence</i></a>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/3.jpg"><img src="Images/3.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Title-page</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column raymo">
<p>SONGS of Innocence</p>
<p>1789</p>
<p><i>The Author & Printer W Blake</i></p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Introduction" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/4.jpg"><img src="Images/4.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 4</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>Introduction</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Piping down the valleys wild</p>
<p>Piping songs of pleasant glee</p>
<p>On a cloud I saw a child.</p>
<p>And he laughing said to me.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Pipe a song about a Lamb:</p>
<p>So I piped with merry chear,</p>
<p>Piper, pipe that song again—</p>
<p>So I piped, he wept to hear.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe</p>
<p>Sing thy songs of happy chear,</p>
<p>So I sung the same again</p>
<p>While he wept with joy to hear.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Piper, sit thee down and write</p>
<p>In a book, that all may read—</p>
<p>So he vanish'd from my sight,</p>
<p>And I pluck'd a hollow reed.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>And I made a rural pen,</p>
<p>And I stain'd the water clear,</p>
<p>And I wrote my happy songs,</p>
<p>Every child may joy to hear</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="The Shepherd" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/5.jpg"><img src="Images/5.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 5</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>The Shepherd.</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>How sweet is the Shepherd's sweet lot,</p>
<p>From the morn to the evening he strays:</p>
<p>He shall follows his sheep all the day</p>
<p>And his tongue shall be filled with praise.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>For he hears the lamb's innocent call.</p>
<p>And he hears the ewe's tender reply.</p>
<p>He is watchful while they are in peace</p>
<p>For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Ecchoing Green" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/6.jpg"><img src="Images/6.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 6</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>Ecchoing Green</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>The Sun does arise,</p>
<p>And make happy the skies.</p>
<p>The merry bells ring,</p>
<p>To welcome the Spring.</p>
<p>The sky-lark and thrush,</p>
<p>The birds of the bush,</p>
<p>Sing louder around,</p>
<p>To the bells chearful sound,</p>
<p>While our sports shall be seen</p>
<p>On the Ecchoing Green.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Old John, with white hair</p>
<p>Does laugh away care,</p>
<p>Sitting under the oak,</p>
<p>Among the old folk.</p>
<p style="text-align: right !important;"><i>They</i></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/7.jpg"><img src="Images/7.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 7</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<div class="stanza">
<p>They laugh at our play</p>
<p>And soon they all say</p>
<p>"Such, such were the joy</p>
<p>When we all, girls & boys</p>
<p>In our youth time were see</p>
<p>On the Ecchoing Green."</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Till the little ones, weary</p>
<p>No more can be merry</p>
<p>The sun does descend</p>
<p>And our sports have an end</p>
<p>Round the laps of their mother</p>
<p>Many sisters and brothers</p>
<p>Like birds in their nest</p>
<p>Are ready for rest</p>
<p>And sport no more see</p>
<p>On the darkening Green.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="The Lamb" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/8.jpg"><img src="Images/8.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 8</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>The Lamb</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Little Lamb, who made thee</p>
<p>Dost thou know who made thee</p>
<p>Gave thee life & bid thee feed</p>
<p>By the stream & o'er the mead</p>
<p>Gave thee clothing of delight</p>
<p>Softest clothing, wooly, bright</p>
<p>Gave thee such a tender voice</p>
<p>Making all the vales rejoice</p>
<p>Little Lamb, who made thee</p>
<p>Dost thou know who made thee?</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Little Lamb, I'll tell thee</p>
<p>Little Lamb, I'll tell thee</p>
<p>He is called by thy name</p>
<p>For he calls himself a Lamb</p>
<p>He is meek & he is mild</p>
<p>He became a little child</p>
<p>I a child & thou a lamb</p>
<p>We are called by his name</p>
<p>Little Lamb, God bless thee</p>
<p>Little Lamb, God bless thee!</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="The Little Black Boy" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/9.jpg"><img src="Images/9.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 9</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>The Little Black Boy</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>My mother bore me in the southern wild</p>
<p>And I am black. but O! my soul is white</p>
<p>White as an angel is the English child</p>
<p>But I am black as if bereav'd of light.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>My mother taught me underneath a tree</p>
<p>And, sitting down before the heat of day</p>
<p>She took me on her lap and kissed me</p>
<p>And pointing to the east began to say:</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>"Look on the rising sun: there God does live</p>
<p>And gives his light, and gives his heat away</p>
<p>And flowers and trees and beasts and men reciev</p>
<p>Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>"And we are put on earth a little space</p>
<p>That we may learn to bear the beams of love</p>
<p>And these black bodies and this sunburnt fac</p>
<p>Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/10.jpg"><img src="Images/10.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 10</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<div class="stanza">
<p>"For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear</p>
<p>The cloud will vanish: we shall hear his voice</p>
<p>Saying: 'Come out from the grove, my love & care</p>
<p>And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.'</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Thus did my mother say, and kissed me</p>
<p>And thus I say to little English boy</p>
<p>When I from black and he from white cloud free</p>
<p>And round the tent of God like lambs we joy,</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>I'll shade him from the heat, till he can bea</p>
<p>To lean in joy upon our father's knee</p>
<p>And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair</p>
<p>And be like him, and he will then love me.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="The Blossom" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/11.jpg"><img src="Images/11.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 11</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>The Blossom</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Merry Merry Sparrow</p>
<p>Under leaves so green</p>
<p>A happy Blosso</p>
<p>Sees you, swift as arrow</p>
<p>Seek your cradle narro</p>
<p>Near my Bosom.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Pretty Pretty Robin</p>
<p>Under leaves so green</p>
<p>A happy Blosso</p>
<p>Hears you sobbing, sobbing</p>
<p>Pretty Pretty Robin</p>
<p>Near my Bosom.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="The Chimney Sweeper" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/12.jpg"><img src="Images/12.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 12</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>The Chimney Sweeper</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>When my mother died I was very young</p>
<p>And my father sold me while yet my tongu</p>
<p>Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!</p>
<p>So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head</p>
<p>That curl'd llke a lamb's back. was shav'd: so I sai</p>
<p>"Hush. Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bar</p>
<p>You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair."</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>And so he was quiet & that very night</p>
<p>As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight</p>
<p>That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned or Jack</p>
<p>Were all of them lock'd up in coffins of black.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>And by came an Angel who had a bright key</p>
<p>And he open'd the coffins & set them all free</p>
<p>Then down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run</p>
<p>And wash in a river. and shine in the Sun.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Then naked & white, all their bags left behind</p>
<p>They rise upon clouds and sport in the wind</p>
<p>And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy</p>
<p>He'd have God for his father & never want joy.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark</p>
<p>And got with our bags & our brushes to work</p>
<p>Tho' the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm</p>
<p>So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="The Little Boy Lost" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/13.jpg"><img src="Images/13.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 13</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>The Little Boy Lost</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>"Father! father! where are you going</p>
<p>O do not walk so fast</p>
<p>Speak, father, speak to your little boy</p>
<p>Or else I shall be lost."</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>The night was dark, no father was there</p>
<p>The child was wet with dew</p>
<p>The mire was deep, & the child did weep</p>
<p>And away the vapour flew.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="The Little Boy Found" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/14.jpg"><img src="Images/14.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 14</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>The Little Boy Found</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>The little boy lost in the lonely fen</p>
<p>Led by the wand'ring light</p>
<p>Began to cry; but God, ever nigh</p>
<p>Appear'd like his father, in white.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>He kissed the child, & by the hand led</p>
<p>And to his mother brought</p>
<p>Who in sorrow pale, thro' the lonely dale</p>
<p>Her little boy weeping sought.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Laughing Song" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/15.jpg"><img src="Images/15.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 15</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>Laughing Song</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy</p>
<p>And the dimpling stream runs laughing by</p>
<p>When the air does laugh with our merry wit</p>
<p>And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>When the meadows laugh with lively green</p>
<p>And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene</p>
<p>When Mary and Susan and Emil</p>
<p>With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, Ha, He!"</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>When the painted birds laugh in the shade</p>
<p>Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread</p>
<p>Come live & be merry, and join with me</p>
<p>To sing the sweet chorus of "Ha, Ha, He!"</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="A Cradle Song" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/16.jpg"><img src="Images/16.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 16</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>A Cradle Song</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Sweet dreams form a shad</p>
<p>O'er my lovely infant's head</p>
<p>Sweet dreams of pleasant stream</p>
<p>By happy, silent, moony beams.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Sweet sleep with soft dow</p>
<p>Weave thy brows an infant crown</p>
<p>Sweet sleep, Angel mild</p>
<p>Hover o'er my happy child.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Sweet smiles in the nigh</p>
<p>Hover over my delight</p>
<p>Sweet smiles, Mother's smiles</p>
<p>All the livelong night beguiles.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Sweet moans. dovelike sighs</p>
<p>Chase not slumber from thy eyes</p>
<p>Sweet moans, sweeter smiles</p>
<p>All the dovelike moans beguiles.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Sleep sleep, happy child</p>
<p>All creation slept and smil'd</p>
<p>Sleep sleep, happy sleep</p>
<p>While o'er thee thy mother weep.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Sweet babe, in thy fac</p>
<p>Holy image I can trace</p>
<p>Sweet babe, once like thee</p>
<p>Thy maker lay and wept for me,</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/17.jpg"><img src="Images/17.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 17</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<div class="stanza">
<p>Wept for me, for thee, for all</p>
<p>When he was an infant small</p>
<p>Thou his image ever see</p>
<p>Heavenly face that smiles on thee,</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Smiles on thee, on me, on all</p>
<p>Who becarne an infant small</p>
<p>Infant smiles are his own smiles</p>
<p>Heaven & earth to peace beguiles.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="The Divine Image" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/18.jpg"><img src="Images/18.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 18</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>The Divine Image</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Lov</p>
<p>All pray in their distress</p>
<p>An to these virtues of deligh</p>
<p>Return their thankfulness.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Lov</p>
<p>Is God, our father dear</p>
<p>And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Lov</p>
<p>Is Man, his child and care.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>For Mercy has a human heart</p>
<p>Pity a human face</p>
<p>And Love, the human form divine</p>
<p>And Peace, the human dress.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Then every man, of every dim</p>
<p>That prays in his distress</p>
<p>Prays to the human form divine</p>
<p>Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>And all must love the human form</p>
<p>In heathen, turk, or jew</p>
<p>Where Mercy, Love & Pity dwel</p>
<p>There God is dwelling too.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Holy Thursday" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/19.jpg"><img src="Images/19.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 19</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>Holy Thursday</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean</p>
<p>The children walking two & two, in red & blue & green</p>
<p>Grey-headed beadles walk'd before, with wands as white as snow</p>
<p>Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames' waters flow.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>O what a multitude they seem'd, these flowers of London town</p>
<p>Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own</p>
<p>The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs</p>
<p>Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song</p>
<p>Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among</p>
<p>Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor</p>
<p>Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Night" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/20.jpg"><img src="Images/20.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 20</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>Night</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>The sun descending in the west</p>
<p>The evening star does shine</p>
<p>The birds are silent in their nest</p>
<p>And I must seek for mine</p>
<p>The moon like a flower</p>
<p>In heaven's high bower</p>
<p>With silent deligh</p>
<p>Sits and smiles on the night.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Farewell, green fields and happy groves</p>
<p>Where flocks have took delight</p>
<p>Where lambs have nibbled, silent move</p>
<p>The feet of angels bright</p>
<p>Unseen they pour blessing</p>
<p>And joy without ceasing</p>
<p>On each bud and blossom</p>
<p>And each sleeping bosom.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>They look in every thoughtless nest</p>
<p>Where birds are cover'd warm</p>
<p>They visit caves of every beast</p>
<p>To keep them all from harm</p>
<p>If they see any weepin</p>
<p>That should have been sleepin</p>
<p>They pour sleep on their hea</p>
<p>And sit down by their bed.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/21.jpg"><img src="Images/21.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 21</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<div class="stanza">
<p>When wolves and tygers howl for prey</p>
<p>They pitying stand and weep</p>
<p>Seeking to drive their thirst away</p>
<p>And keep them from the sheep</p>
<p>But if they rush dreadful</p>
<p>The angels, most heedful</p>
<p>Recieve each mild spirit</p>
<p>New worlds to inherit.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>And there the lion's ruddy eye</p>
<p>Shall flow with tears of gold</p>
<p>And pitying the tender cries</p>
<p>And walking round the fold</p>
<p>Saying "Wrath, by his meekness</p>
<p>And, by his health, sicknes</p>
<p>Is driven awa</p>
<p>From our immortal day.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>"And now beside thee, bleating lamb</p>
<p>I can lie down and sleep</p>
<p>Or think on him who bore thy name</p>
<p>Graze after thee and weep</p>
<p>For, wash'd in life's river</p>
<p>My bright mane for eve</p>
<p>Shall shine like the gol</p>
<p>As I guard o'er the fold."</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Spring" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/22.jpg"><img src="Images/22.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 22</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>Spring</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Sound the Flute</p>
<p>Now it's mute</p>
<p>Birds deligh</p>
<p>Day and Night</p>
<p>Nightingal</p>
<p>In the dale</p>
<p>Lark in Sky</p>
<p>Merrily</p>
<p>Merrily, Merrily, to welcome in the Year.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Little Boy</p>
<p>Full of joy;</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/23.jpg"><img src="Images/23.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 23</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<div class="stanza">
<p>Little Girl</p>
<p>Sweet and small</p>
<p>Cock does crow</p>
<p>So do you</p>
<p>Merry voice</p>
<p>Infant noise</p>
<p>Merrily, Merrily, to welcome in the Year.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Little Lamb</p>
<p>Here I am</p>
<p>Come and lic</p>
<p>My white neck</p>
<p>Let me pul</p>
<p>Your soft Woo</p>
<p>Let me kis</p>
<p>Your soft face</p>
<p>Merrily, Merrily, we welcome in the Year.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Nurse's Song" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/24.jpg"><img src="Images/24.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 24</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>Nurse's Song</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>When the voices of children are heard on the green</p>
<p>And laughing is heard on the hill</p>
<p>My heart is at rest within my breast</p>
<p>And everything else is still.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>"Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down</p>
<p>And the dews of night arise</p>
<p>Come, come, leave off play, and let us awa</p>
<p>Till the morning appears in the skies."</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>"No, no, let us play, for it is yet nay</p>
<p>And we cannot go to sleep</p>
<p>Besides, in the sky the little birds fly</p>
<p>And the hills are all cover'd with sheep."</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>"Well, well, go & play till the light fades away</p>
<p>And then go home to bed.</p>
<p>The little ones leaped & shouted & laugh'</p>
<p>And all the hills ecchoed.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Infant Joy" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/25.jpg"><img src="Images/25.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 25</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>Infant Joy</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>"I have no name</p>
<p>I am but two days old.</p>
<p>What shall I call thee:</p>
<p>"I happy am</p>
<p>Joy is my name.</p>
<p>Sweet joy befall thee!</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Pretty joy</p>
<p>Sweet joy, but two days old</p>
<p>Sweet joy I call thee</p>
<p>Thou dost smile</p>
<p>I sing the while</p>
<p>Sweet joy befall thee!</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="A Dream" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/26.jpg"><img src="Images/26.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 26</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>A Dream</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Once a dream did weave a shad</p>
<p>O'er my Angel-guarded bed</p>
<p>That an Emmet lost its wa</p>
<p>Where on grass methought I lay.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Troubled,'wilder'd, and forlorn</p>
<p>Dark, benighted, travel-worn</p>
<p>Over many a tangled spray</p>
<p>All heart-broke I heard her say:</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>"O, my children! do they cry</p>
<p>Do they hear their father sigh!</p>
<p>Now they look abroad to see</p>
<p>Now return and weep for me."</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Pitying, I drop'd a tear</p>
<p>But I saw a glow-worm near</p>
<p>Who replied: "What wailing wigh</p>
<p>Calls the watchman of the night!</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>"I am set to light the ground</p>
<p>While the beetle goes his round</p>
<p>Follow now the beetle's hum</p>
<p>Little wanderer, hie thee home."</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="On Another's Sorrow:" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/27.jpg"><img src="Images/27.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 27</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<div class="stanza">
<h3>On Another's Sorrow:</h3>
<p>Can I see another's woe</p>
<p>And not be in sorrow too</p>
<p>Can I see another's grief</p>
<p>And not seek for kind relief!</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Can I see a falling tear</p>
<p>And not feel my sorrow's share</p>
<p>Can a father see his chil</p>
<p>'Weep, nor be with sorrow fill'd!</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Can a mother sit and hea</p>
<p>An infant groan, an infant fear</p>
<p>No, no! never can it be</p>
<p>Never, never can it be!</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>And can he who smiles on al</p>
<p>Hear the wren with sorrows small</p>
<p>Hear the small bird's grief & care</p>
<p>Hear the woes that infants bear,</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>And not sit beside the nest</p>
<p>Pouring pity in their breast</p>
<p>And not sit the cradle near</p>
<p>Weeping tear on infant's tear;</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>And not sit both night & day</p>
<p>Wiping all our tears away</p>
<p>O! no, never can it be</p>
<p>Never, never can it be!</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>He doth give his joy to all</p>
<p>He becomes an infant small</p>
<p>He becomes a man of woe</p>
<p>He doth feel the sorrow too.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Think not thou canst sigh a sigh</p>
<p>And thy maker is not by</p>
<p>Think not thou canst weep a tear</p>
<p>And thy maker is not near.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>O! he gives to us his jo</p>
<p>That our grief he may destroy</p>
<p>Till our grief is fled & gon</p>
<p>He doth sit by us and moan.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Experience">
<hr />
<div class="description">
<p><em>Songs of Experience</em> is the second part of <em>Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two
Contrary States of the Human Soul</em> (first published in 1794), an expansion of Blake's first illuminated book
<em>Songs of Innocence</em>. The poems and artwork were reproduced by copperplate engraving and colored with washes by
hand. Blake republished <em>Songs of Innocence and Experience</em> several times, often changing the number and order
of the plates. The spellings, punctuation and capitalizations are those of the original Blake manuscripts.</p>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/28.jpg"><img src="Images/28.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 28</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/29.jpg"><img src="Images/29.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 29</a>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Introduction 2" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/30.jpg"><img src="Images/30.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 30</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>Introduction</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Hear the voice of the Bard!</p>
<p>Who Present, Past, & Future sees</p>
<p>Whose ears have heard,</p>
<p>The Holy Word,</p>
<p>That walk'd among the ancient trees.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Calling the lapsed Soul</p>
<p>And weeping in the evening dew:</p>
<p>That might controll,</p>
<p>The starry pole;</p>
<p>And fallen fallen light renew!</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>O Earth O Earth return!</p>
<p>Arise from out the dewy grass;</p>
<p>Night is worn,</p>
<p>And the morn</p>
<p>Rises from the slumberous mass.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Turn away no more:</p>
<p>Why wilt thou turn away</p>
<p>The starry floor</p>
<p>The watry shore</p>
<p>Is giv'n thee till the break of day</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Earth's Answer" class="row">
<div class="column illustration">
<p><a href="Images/31.jpg"><img src="Images/31.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Plate 31</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="column">
<h3>Earth's Answer</h3>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Earth rais'd up her head,</p>
<p>From the darkness dread & drear.</p>
<p>Her light fled:</p>
<p>Stony dread!</p>
<p>And her locks cover'd with grey despair.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Prison'd on watry shore</p>
<p>Starry Jealousy does keep my den</p>
<p>Cold and hoar</p>
<p>Weeping o'er</p>
<p>I hear the Father of the ancient men</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Selfish father of men</p>
<p>Cruel jealous selfish fear</p>
<p>Can delight</p>
<p>Chain'd in night</p>
<p>The virgins of youth and morning bear.</p>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Does spring hide its joy</p>
<p>When buds and blossoms grow!</p>
<p>Does the sower!</p>