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Blake, William - We reap not what we do not sow
Identifier
006421
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Blake's "When the Morning Stars Sang Together"...
A description of the experience
William Blake – from the Complete Poems
Why should punishment weave the veil with iron wheels of war
When forgiveness might it weave with wings of cherubim
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I will break thee into shivers and melt thee in the furnace of death
I will cast thee into forms of abhorrence and torment if thou
Desist not from thine own will and obey not my stern command
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Earth raised up her head
From the darkness dread and drear
Her Light fled
Stony dread
And her locks covered with grey despair
Prisoned on watery shore
Starry Jealousy does keep my den
Cold and hoar
Weeping o’er
I hear the Father of the ancient men
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Tharmas groaned among his clouds
Weeping then bending from his Clouds he stooped his innocent head
And stretching out his holy hand in the vast deep sublime
Turned round the circle of destiny with tears and bitter sighs
And said ‘return o wanderer when the day of clouds is over’
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Welcome stranger to this place
Where joy doth sit on every bough
Paleness flies from every face
We reap not what we do not sow