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The Little Black Boy
2023-12-06My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav&...
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Punishment and Forgiveness
2023-12-06Why should Punishment weave the veil with Iron Wheels of War, When Forgiveness might it weave with Wings of Cherubim?...
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Infant Joy
2023-12-06`I have no name: I am but two days old.' What shall I call thee? `I happy am, Joy is my name.' Sweet joy befall thee! Pretty Joy! Sweet Joy, b...
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A Vision of Albion
2023-12-06I see the Fourfold Man; the Humanity in deadly sleep, And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. I see the Past, Present, and Future ...
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The Shepherd
2023-12-06How sweet is the Shepherd's sweet lot! From the morn to the evening he strays; He shall follow his sheep all the day, And his tongue shall be fill...
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The Lamb
2023-12-06Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life, and bid thee feed, By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing o...
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The Builders of Golgonooza
2023-12-06What are those Golden Builders doing? Where was the burying-place Of soft Ethinthus? near Tyburn's fatal Tree? Is that Mild Zion's hill's ...
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The Echoing Green
2023-12-06The Sun does arise, And make happy the skies; The merry bells ring To welcome the Spring; The skylark and thrush, The birds of the bush, Sing louder a...
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The Words of Los
2023-12-06I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's; I will not Reason and Compare: my business is to Create....
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To A Nightingale
2023-12-06My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and...