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Poets' Corner - William Blake - Selected Works

You want the second poem down, Auguries of Innocence.

I'm not going to spoil these couplets & the brilliant wrap-up at the end by quoting at length, but just for a taste...

Many faces of a similar theme here, many of them better-turned, but I figured I'd trot out one we'd all recognize from the back-and-forth here.

(Of course, the first poem here, "Jerusalem" may be a personal favorite, if you grew up with it in hymn-form in church, or if you like the Emerson, Lake, and Palmer version.)

Enjoy all!

PFnV

Titus Pullo

We are led to Believe a Lie
When we see not Thro' the Eye
Which was Born in a Night to Perish in a Night
When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light.