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THEE...............30 Piper sit thee down and write Introduction Innocence Little Lamb who made thee The Lamb Innocence Dost thou know who made thee The Lamb Innocence Gave thee life & bid thee feed, The Lamb Innocence Gave thee life & bid thee feed, The Lamb Innocence Gave thee clothing of delight, The Lamb Innocence Gave thee such a tender voice, The Lamb Innocence Little Lamb who made thee The Lamb Innocence Dost thou know who made thee The Lamb Innocence Little Lamb I'll tell thee, The Lamb Innocence Little Lamb I'll tell thee; The Lamb Innocence Little Lamb God bless thee, The Lamb Innocence Little Lamb God bless thee. The Lamb Innocence While o'er thee thy mother weep A Cradle Song Innocence Sweet babe once like thee, A Cradle Song Innocence Wept for me for thee for all, A Cradle Song Innocence Heavenly face that smiles on thee. A Cradle Song Innocence Smiles on thee on me on all, A Cradle Song Innocence And now beside thee bleating lamb, Night Innocence Grase after thee and weep. Night Innocence What shall I call thee? Infant Joy Innocence Sweet joy befall thee! Infant Joy Innocence Sweet joy I call thee: Infant Joy Innocence Sweet joy befall thee. Infant Joy Innocence Little wanderer hie thee home. A Dream Innocence Is giv'n thee till the break of day. Introduction Experience A fly like thee? The Fly Experience Did he who made the Lamb make thee? The Tyger Experience Then what have I to do with thee? To Tirzah Experience Them what have I to do with thee? To Tirzah Experience
THEIR..............32 For they know when their Shepherd is nigh. The Shepherd Innocence Round the laps of their mothers, The Ecchoing Green Innocence Like birds in their nest, The Ecchoing Green Innocence Then naked & white, all their bags left behind, The Chimney Sweeper Innocence So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm. The Chimney Sweeper Innocence With their sweet round mouths sing Ha, Ha, He. Laughing Song Innocence All pray in their distress: The Divine Image Innocence Return their thankfulness. The Divine Image Innocence Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean Holy Thursday Innocence Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own Holy Thursday Innocence Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands Holy Thursday Innocence The birds are silent in their nest, Night Innocence They pour sleep on their head Night Innocence And sit down by their bed. Night Innocence Seeking to drive their thirst away, Night Innocence Do they hear their father sigh. A Dream Innocence Pouring pity in their breast. On Anothers Sorrow Innocence And their sun does never shine. Holy Thursday Experience And their fields are bleak and bare. Holy Thursday Experience And their ways are fill'd with thorns Holy Thursday Experience And dream they see their child The Little Girl Found Experience Till before their way, The Little Girl Found Experience But their fears allay, The Little Girl Found Experience When he licks their hands: The Little Girl Found Experience Gone was all their care. The Little Girl Found Experience And saw their sleeping child, The Little Girl Found Experience When the stars threw down their spears, The Tyger Experience And water'd heaven with their tears: The Tyger Experience Arise from their graves and aspire Ah! Sun-flower Experience And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, The Garden of Love Experience But their search was all in vain; The Human Abstract Experience Of their joy in the springing day, The Schoolboy Experience
THEM................8 Were all of them lock'd up in coffins of black, The Chimney Sweeper Innocence And he open'd the coffins & set them all free. The Chimney Sweeper Innocence Beneath them sit the aged men wise guardians of the poor Holy Thursday Innocence To keep them all from harm: Night Innocence And keep them from the sheep, Night Innocence Bore them to the ground; The Little Girl Found Experience And silent by them stands. The Little Girl Found Experience Them what have I to do with thee? To Tirzah Experience
THEN...............21 And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, The Little Black Boy Innocence And be like him and he will then love me. The Little Black Boy Innocence Then down a green plain leaping laughing they run The Chimney Sweeper Innocence Then naked & white, all their bags left behind, The Chimney Sweeper Innocence Then every man of every clime, The Divine Image Innocence Then cherish pity; lest you drive an angel from your door Holy Thursday Innocence Then come home my children, the sun is gone down Nurse's Song Innocence And then go home to bed Nurse's Song Innocence Then let Lyca wake; The Little Girl Lost Experience Then he gambold round The Little Girl Lost Experience Then he stalk'd around. The Little Girl Found Experience Then they followed, The Little Girl Found Experience Then come home my children, the sun is gone down Nurses Song Experience Then am I The Fly Experience Then the morn blush'd rosy red: The Angel Experience Then I went to my Pretty Rose-tree: My Pretty Rose Tree Experience Then the Parson might preach & drink & sing, The Little Vagabond Experience Then Cruelty knits a snare, The Human Abstract Experience Then Humility takes its root The Human Abstract Experience Then what have I to do with thee? To Tirzah Experience Ah! then at times I drooping sit, The Schoolboy Experience
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