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Auguries of Innocence by William Blake

TO see a world in a grain of sand,/And a heaven in a wild flower,/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,/And eternity in an hour.

A robin redbreast in a cage/Puts all heaven in a rage./A dove-house fill’ d with doves and pigeons/Shudders hell thro’ all its regions.

A dog starv’ d at his master’s gate/Predicts the ruin of the state./A horse misused upon the road/Calls to heaven for human blood.

Each outcry of the hunted hare/A fibre from the brain does tear./A skylark wounded in the wing,/A cherubim does cease to sing.

The game-cock clipt and arm’ d for fight/Does the rising sun affright./Every wolf’s and lion’s howl/Raises from hell a human soul.

The wild deer, wand’ ring here and there,/Keeps the human soul from care./The lamb misus’ d breeds public strife,/And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.

The bat that flits at close of eve/Has left the brain that won’t believe./The owl that calls upon the night/Speaks the unbeliever’s fright.

He who shall hurt the little wren/Shall never be belov’ d by men./He who the ox to wrath has mov’d/Shall never be by woman lov’ d.

The wanton boy that kills the fly/Shall feel the spider’s enmity./He who torments the chafer’s sprite/Weaves a bower in endless night.

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The caterpillar on the leaf/Repeats to thee thy mother’s grief./Kill not the moth nor butterfly,/For the last judgment draweth nigh.

He who shall train the horse to war/Shall never pass the polar bar./The beggar’s dog and widow’s cat,/Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.

The gnat that sings his summer’s song/Poison gets from slander’s tongue./The poison of the snake and newt/Is the sweat of envy’s foot.

The poison of the honey bee/Is the artist’s jealousy./The prince’s robes and beggar’s rags/Are toadstools on the miser’s bags.

A truth that’s told with bad intent/Beats all the lies you can invent./It is right it should be so;/Man was made for joy and woe;

And when this we rightly know,/Thro’ the world we safely go./Joy and woe are woven fine,/A clothing for the soul divine.

Under every grief and pine/Runs a joy with silken twine./The babe is more than swaddling bands;/Throughout all these human lands

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Tools were made, and born were hands,/Every farmer understands./Every tear from every eye/Becomes a babe in eternity;

This is caught by females bright,/And return’ d to its own delight./The bleat, the bark, bellow, and roar,/Are waves that beat on heaven’s shore.

The babe that weeps the rod beneath/Writes revenge in realms of death./The beggar’s rags, fluttering in air,/Does to rags the heavens tear.

The soldier, arm’ d with sword and gun,/Palsied strikes the summer’s sun./The poor man’s farthing is worth more/Than all the gold on Afric’s shore.

One mite wrung from the lab’ rer’s hands/Shall buy and sell the miser’s lands;/Or, if protected from on high,/Does that whole nation sell and buy.

He who mocks the infant’s faith/Shall be mock’ d in age and death./He who shall teach the child to doubt/The rotting grave shall ne’ er get out.

He who respects the infant’s faith/Triumphs over hell and death./The child’s toys and the old man’s reasons/Are the fruits of the two seasons.