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Auguries Of Innocence [concised]

To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour.

The child’s toys and the old man’s reasons

Are the fruits of the two seasons.

Joy and woe: the soul divine

Runs a joy with silken twine.

Every tear from every eye

Becomes a babe in eternity;

He who replies to words of doubt

Doth put the light of knowledge out.

It is right it should be so:

Man was made for joy and woe;

And when this we rightly know

Through the world we safely go.

William Blake (1757-1827) 

De bewerker heeft de 132 regels van Blake's origineel samengebald tot vier kwatrijnen. Dit is wat z/hij te zeggen heeft over de Dichter:

Blake’s most balanced & clear-headed act seems to have been attempting to persuade his father at the age of 10 that he had seen hosts of angels in a tree on Peckham Rye [to which his father no doubt responded, “nonsense, boy, there are no trees on Peckham Rye.”].