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Thy father does thee keep.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>'O, what land is the Land of Dreams ?</b></div> <div> <B>What are its mountains, and what are its streams ?</b></div> <div> <B>O father ! I saw my mother there,</b></div> <div> <B>Among the lilies by waters fair.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>'Among the lambs, clothèd in white,</b></div> <div> <B>She walk'd with her Thomas in sweet delight.</b></div> <div> <B>I wept for joy, like a dove I mourn ;</b></div> <div> <B>O ! when shall I again return ?'</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dear child, I also by pleasant streams</b></div> <div> <B>Have wander'd all night in the Land of Dreams ;</b></div> <div> <B>But tho' calm and warm the waters wide,</b></div> <div> <B>I could not get to the other side.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>'Father, O father ! what do we here </b></div> <div> <B>In this land of unbelief and fear ?</b></div> <div> <B>The Land of Dreams is better far,</b></div> <div> <B>Above the light of the morning star.'</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>***************************************************</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Clod and the Pebble</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>'Love seeketh not itself to please,</b></div> <div> <B>Nor for itself hath any care,</b></div> <div> <B>But for another gives its ease,</b></div> <div> <B>And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.'</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>So sung a little Clod of Clay</b></div> <div> <B>Trodden with the cattle's feet,</b></div> <div> <B>But a pebble of the brook</b></div> <div> <B>Warbled out these metres meet :</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>'Love seeketh only Self to please,</b></div> <div> <B>To bind another ot Its delight,</b></div> <div> <B>Joys in another's loss of ease,</b></div> <div> <B>And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.'</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>**********************************************************************</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The New Jerusalem</b></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="488" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 356 WIDTH="484"><div> <B>And did those feet in ancient time</b></div> <div> <B>Walk upon England's mountains green?</b></div> <div> <B>And was the holy Lamb of God</b></div> <div> <B>On England's pleasant pastures seen? </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>And did the Countenance Divine</b></div> <div> <B>Shine forth upon our clouded hills?</b></div> <div> <B>And was Jerusalem builded here</b></div> <div> <B>Among these dark Satanic Mills? </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Bring me my bow of burning gold!</b></div> <div> <B>Bring me my arrows of desire!</b></div> <div> <B>Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!</b></div> <div> <B>Bring me my charriot of fire! </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I will not cease from mental fight,</b></div> <div> <B>Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand</b></div> <div> <B>Till we have built Jerusalem</b></div> <div> <B>In England's green and pleasant land. </b></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></b></div> <bR> <div> <B>**********************************************************************</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Fly</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Little Fly, </b></div> <div> <B>Thy summer's play </b></div> <div> <B>My thoughtless hand </b></div> <div> <B>Has brushed away. </b></div> <div> <B>Am not I </b></div> <div> <B>A fly like thee? </b></div> <div> <B>Or art not thou </b></div> <div> <B>A man like me? </b></div> <div> <B>For I dance </b></div> <div> <B>And drink, and sing, </b></div> <div> <B>Till some blind hand </b></div> <div> <B>Shall brush my wing. </b></div> <div> <B>If thought is life </b></div> <div> <B>And strength and breath </b></div> <div> <B>And the want </b></div> <div> <B>Of thought is death; </b></div> <div> <B>Then am I </b></div> <div> <B>A happy fly, </b></div> <div> <B>If I live, </b></div> <div> <B>Or if I die. </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>**********************************************************************</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Little Vagabond</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold,</b></div> <div> <B>But the Ale-house is healthy & pleasant & warm;</b></div> <div> <B>Besides I can tell where I am use'd well,</b></div> <div> <B>Such usage in heaven will never do well. </b></div> <div> <B>But if at the Church they would give us some Ale.</b></div> <div> <B>And a pleasant fire, our souls to regale;</b></div> <div> <B>We'd sing and we'd pray, all the live-long day;</b></div> <div> <B>Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray, </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Then the Parson might preach & drink & sing.</b></div> <div> <B>And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring: </b></div> <div> <B>And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church,</b></div> <div> <B>Would not have bandy children nor fasting nor birch. </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>And God like a father rejoicing to see,</b></div> <div> <B>His children as pleasant and happy as he:</b></div> <div> <B>Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the Barrel</b></div> <div> <B>But kiss him & give him both drink and apparel. </b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>*******************************************************************</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Tyger</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Tyger Tyger, burning bright,</b></div> <div> <B>In the forests of the night;</b></div> <div> <B>What immortal hand or eye,</b></div> <div> <B>Could frame thy fearful symmetry</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>In what distant deeps or skies.</b></div> <div> <B>Burnt the fire of thine eyes!</b></div> <div> <B>On what wings dare he aspire?</b></div> <div> <B>What the hand, dare sieze the fire!</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>And what shoulder, & what art.</b></div> <div> <B>Could twist the sinews of thy heart?</b></div> <div> <B>And when thy heart began to beat,</b></div> <div> <B>What dread hand! & what dread feet!</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>What the hammer! what the chain,</b></div> <div> <B>In what furnace was thy brain</b></div> <div> <B>What the anvil, what dread grasp,</b></div> <div> <B>Dare its deadly terrors clasp!</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>When the stars threw down their spear</b></div> <div> <B>And water'd heaven with their tears:</b></div> <div> <B>Did he smile his work to see</b></div> <div> <B>Did he who made the Lamb make thee!</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Tyger Tyger burning bright,</b></div> <div> <B>In the forests of the night:</b></div> <div> <B>What immortal hand or eye,</b></div> <div> <B>Dare frame thy fearful symmetry! </b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>****************************************************</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>On Another's Sorrow</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Can I see another's woe,</b></div> <div> <B>And not be in sorrow too?</b></div> <div> <B>Can I see another's grief,</b></div> <div> <B>And not seek for kind relief?</b></div> <div> <B>Can I see a falling tear,</b></div> <div> <B>And not feel my sorrow's share?</b></div> <div> <B>Can a father see his child</b></div> <div> <B>Weep, nor be with sorrow filled?</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Can a mother sit and hear</b></div> <div> <B>An infant groan, an infant fear?</b></div> <div> <B>No, no! never can it be!</b></div> <div> <B>Never, never can it be!</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>And can He who smiles on all</b></div> <div> <B>Hear the wren with sorrows small,</b></div> <div> <B>Hear the small bird's grief and care,</b></div> <div> <B>Hear the woes that infants bear --</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>And not sit beside the next,</b></div> <div> <B>Pouring pity in their breast,</b></div> <div> <B>And not sit the cradle near,</b></div> <div> <B>Weeping tear on infant's tear?</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>And not sit both night and day,</b></div> <div> <B>Wiping all our tears away?</b></div> <div> <B>Oh no! never can it be!</b></div> <div> <B>Never, never can it be!</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>He doth give his joy to all:</b></div> <div> <B>He becomes an infant small,</b></div> <div> <B>He becomes a man of woe,</b></div> <div> <B>He doth feel the sorrow too.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Think not thou canst sigh a sigh,</b></div> <div> <B>And thy Maker is not by:</b></div> <div> <B>Think not thou canst weep a tear,</b></div> <div> <B>And thy Maker is not year.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Oh He gives to us his joy,</b></div> <div> <B>That our grief He may destroy:</b></div> <div> <B>Till our grief is fled an gone</b></div> <div> <B>He doth sit by us and moan. </b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>*************************************************</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Love's Secret</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Never seek to tell thy love, </b></div> <div> <B>Love that never told can be;</b></div> <div> <B>For the gentle wind does move</b></div> <div> <B>Silently, invisibly.</b></div> <div> <B>I told my love, I told my love,</b></div> <div> <B>I told her all my heart;</b></div> <div> <B>Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears,</b></div> <div> <B>Ah! she did depart!</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Soon as she was gone from me,</b></div> <div> <B>A traveler came by,</b></div> <div> <B>Silently, invisibly </b></div> <div> <B>He took her with a sigh.</b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>