Auguries of Innocence
To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
A DREAM
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Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass methought I lay.
Troubled, wildered, and forlorn,
Dark, benighted, travel-worn,
Over many a tangle spray,
All heart-broke, I heard her say:
Oh my children! do they cry,
Do they hear their father sigh?
Now they look abroad to see,
Now return and weep for me.
Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, What wailing wight
Calls the watchman of the night?
I am set to light the ground,
While the beetle goes his round:
Follow now the beetle's hum;
Little wanderer, hie thee home!
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And Urizen read in his Book of Brass in sounding tones: -- / `Listen, O Daughters, to my voice! listen to the words of wisdom!
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French Revolution, The
84 Thee the ancientest peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the monarch's right hand, red as wines / 85 From his mountains; an odor of war, like a ripe vineyard, rose from his garments,