A DIVINE IMAGE

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Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.

The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.

More poems by William Blake

"I die, I die!" the Mother said, / "My children die for lack of bread.

Cruelty has a human heart, / And Jealousy a human face;

i / My mother groan'd, my father wept;

And Urizen read in his Book of Brass in sounding tones: -- / `Listen, O Daughters, to my voice! listen to the words of wisdom!