Auguries of Innocence

William Blake

1757 to 1827

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
______ a Heaven in a Wild Flower 
Hold Infinity ______ the palm of your hand 
And Eternity in ______ hour
A Robin Red breast in a Cage
Puts ______ Heaven in a Rage 
A Dove house filld ______ Doves & Pigeons
Shudders Hell thr' all its regions 
A dog starvd at his Masters Gate
Predicts the ______ of the State 
A Horse misusd upon the ______
Calls to Heaven for Human blood 
Each outcry ______ the hunted Hare
A fibre from the Brain does ______ 
A Skylark wounded in the wing 
A ______ does cease to sing 
The Game Cock clipd & armd for fight
Does the Rising Sun affright 
______ Wolfs & Lions howl
Raises from Hell a Human ______ 
The wild deer, wandring here & there 
______ the Human Soul from Care 
The Lamb misusd ______ Public Strife
And yet forgives the Butchers knife 
______ Bat that flits at close of Eve
Has left ______ Brain that wont Believe
The Owl that calls upon ______ Night
Speaks the Unbelievers fright
He who shall hurt ______ little Wren
Shall never be belovd by Men 
______ who the Ox to wrath has movd
Shall never ______ by Woman lovd
The wanton Boy that kills the ______
Shall feel the Spiders enmity 
He who torments ______ Chafers Sprite
Weaves a Bower in endless Night 
______ Catterpiller on the Leaf
Repeats to thee thy Mothers ______ 
Kill not the Moth nor Butterfly 
For ______ Last Judgment draweth nigh 
He who shall train ______ Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar 
The Beggars Dog & Widows Cat 
Feed them & thou wilt grow fat 
The Gnat that sings ______ Summers Song
Poison gets from Slanders tongue 
The ______ of the Snake & Newt
Is the sweat of ______ Foot 
The poison of the Honey Bee
Is ______ Artists Jealousy
The Princes Robes & Beggars Rags
Are ______ on the Misers Bags 
A Truth thats told ______ bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent 
It is right it should be so 
Man ______ made for Joy & Woe 
And when this ______ rightly know 
Thro the World we safely go 
Joy & Woe are woven fine 
A Clothing ______ the soul divine 
Under every grief & pine
______ a joy with silken twine 
The Babe is ______ than swadling Bands
Throughout all these Human Lands
Tools ______ made & Born were hands 
Every Farmer Understands
______ Tear from Every Eye
Becomes a Babe in Eternity 
This is caught by Females bright
And returnd to ______ own delight 
The Bleat the Bark Bellow & ______ 
Are Waves that Beat on Heavens Shore 
______ Babe that weeps the Rod beneath
Writes Revenge in ______ of Death 
The Beggars Rags fluttering in Air
______ to Rags the Heavens tear 
The Soldier armd ______ Sword & Gun 
Palsied strikes the Summers Sun
______ poor Mans Farthing is worth more
Than all the ______ on Africs Shore
One Mite wrung from the Labrers ______
Shall buy & sell the Misers Lands 
Or ______ protected from on high 
Does that whole Nation ______ & buy 
He who mocks the Infants Faith
______ be mockd in Age & Death 
He who ______ teach the Child to Doubt
The rotting Grave shall ______ get out 
He who respects the Infants faith
______ over Hell & Death 
The Childs Toys & ______ Old Mans Reasons
Are the Fruits of the Two ______ 
The Questioner who sits so sly 
Shall ______ know how to Reply 
He who replies to ______ of Doubt
Doth put the Light of Knowledge out 
The Strongest Poison ever known
Came from Caesars Laurel ______ 
Nought can Deform the Human Race
Like to ______ Armours iron brace 
When Gold & Gems adorn ______ Plow
To peaceful Arts shall Envy Bow 
A ______ or the Crickets Cry
Is to Doubt a fit ______ 
The Emmets Inch & Eagles Mile
Make Lame ______ to smile 
He who Doubts from what he ______
Will neer Believe do what you Please 
If ______ Sun & Moon should Doubt 
Theyd immediately Go ______ 
To be in a Passion you Good may ______ 
But no Good if a Passion is in ______ 
The Whore & Gambler by the State
Licencd ______ that Nations Fate 
The Harlots cry from Street ______ Street 
Shall weave Old Englands winding Sheet 
______ Winners Shout the Losers Curse 
Dance before dead ______ Hearse 
Every Night & every Morn
Some to ______ are Born 
Every Morn and every Night
Some ______ Born to sweet delight 
Some are Born to ______ delight 
Some are Born to Endless Night 
______ are led to Believe a Lie
When we see ______ Thro the Eye
Which was Born in a Night ______ perish in a Night 
When the Soul Slept ______ Beams of Light 
God Appears & God is ______
To those poor Souls who dwell in Night 
______ does a Human Form Display
To those who Dwell ______ Realms of day

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