Wednesday 13 July 2011

lines from Auguries of Innocence

I have very little of Mr Blake's company. He is always in Paradise. - Catherine Boucher*

A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.
A dove-house filled with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro' all its regions.
A dog starved at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A horse misused upon the road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted hare
A fibre of the brain does tear.
A skylark wounded in the wing,
A cherubim does cease to sing.

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William Blake 1757-1827
*Blake's wife.

5 comments:

  1. Love this. Also loved the joke and no - I hadn't heard it. Made the farmer chuckle.

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  2. He can tell it in the village pub :)

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  3. THE JOKE IS:
    A farmer wins a million pounds in the lottery. His wife asks him what they should do with all that money. The farmer replies: I guess we'll keep on farming till it's all gone.

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  4. He's in the line of my favourite artists and poets. Thankyou!

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  5. Thank you Gerry, always good to remind ourselves of these things.

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