Earth's Answer
Earth raised up her head / From the darkness dread and drear,
Earth raised up her head / From the darkness dread and drear,
The sun does arise, / And make happy the skies;
Little Fly, / Thy summer's play
1.1 "What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song? / 1.2 Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price
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,
I laid me down upon a bank, / Where Love lay sleeping;
"I die, I die!" the Mother said, / "My children die for lack of bread.
Is this a holy thing to see / In a rich and fruitful land, --
Hear the voice of the Bard ! / Who present, past, and future sees;
'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, / Came children walking two and two, in read, and blue, and green:
Is this a holy thing to see / In a rich and fruitful land, --
Pity would be no more, / If we did not make somebody Poor;
1 I heard an Angel singing / 2 When the day was springing,
1 I saw a chapel all of gold / 2 That none did dare to enter in,
I heard an Angel singing / When the day was springing:
I have no name; / I am but two days old.
My mother groaned, my father wept: / Into the dangerous world I leapt,
i / My mother groan'd, my father wept;
When the voices of children are heard on the green, / And laughing is heard on the hill,
When voices of children are heard on the green, / And whisperings are in the dale,