William Blake: Song of Innocence and of Experience

Night & morning with my tears:

If thought is life And strength & breath; And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die.

That the earth from sleep.

30 Introduction. Hear the voice of the Bard! Who Present, Past, & Future sees Whose ears have heard,

A Dream Once a dream did weave a shade

Eliot said that Blake’s philosophy ‘resembles an ingenuous piece of home-made furniture’; and it is true that the Songs with their coloured ‘illuminations’ have a quality that one might associate with kitchen-top publishing, open sandals and elderberry wine.

And sport no more seen,On the darkening Green.