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Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake · Leo Tolstoy Classics Podcast

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  Speaker 1: in February two thousand six. Songs of Innocence and Experience
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  Speaker 1: by William Blake. Songs of Innocence Introduction, Piping down the
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  Speaker 1: Valley's Wild, Piping Songs of pleasant Glee on a cloud.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a child, and he, laughing, said to me,
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  Speaker 1: pipe a song about a lamb. So I piped, with
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  Speaker 1: merry cheer. Piper, pipe that song again. So I piped.
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  Speaker 1: He wept to hear drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe,
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  Speaker 1: sing thy songs of happy cheer. So I sung the
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  Speaker 1: same again, while he wept with joy to hear piper.
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  Speaker 1: Sit thee down and write in a book that all
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  Speaker 1: may read. So he vanished from my sight, and I
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  Speaker 1: plucked a hollow read and I made a rural pen,
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  Speaker 1: and I stained the water clear, and I wrote my
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  Speaker 1: happy songs every child may joy to hear. End of
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  Speaker 1: Songs of Innocence Introduction. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake. Songs of
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  Speaker 1: Innocence the Shepherd. How sweet is the shepherd's sweet life
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  Speaker 1: from the morn to the evening, he strays. He shall
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  Speaker 1: follow his sheep all the day, and his tongue shall
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  Speaker 1: be filled with praise, for he hears the lamb's innocent call,
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  Speaker 1: and he hears the ewe's tender reply. He is watchful
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  Speaker 1: while they are in peace, for they know when their
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  Speaker 1: shepherd is nigh. And of songs of Innocence the Shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: in February two thousand six. Songs of Innocence and Experience
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  Speaker 1: by William Blake. Songs of Innocence, The Echoing Green. The
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  Speaker 1: sun does arise and make happy the sky. The merry
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  Speaker 1: bells ring to welcome the spring. The skylark and thrush.
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  Speaker 1: The birds of the bush sing louder around to the
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  Speaker 1: bell's cheerful sound, while our sports shall be seen on
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  Speaker 1: the echoing green. Old John with white hair does laugh
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  Speaker 1: away care sitting under the oak among the old folk,
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  Speaker 1: they laugh at our play, and soon they all say
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  Speaker 1: such such were the joys when we, all girls and
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  Speaker 1: boys in our youth time, were seen on the echoing Green.
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  Speaker 1: Till the little ones weary no more can be merry.
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  Speaker 1: The sun does descend, and our sports have an end
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  Speaker 1: round the lapse of their mothers. Many sisters and brothers,
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  Speaker 1: like birds in their nest, are ready for rest and sport,
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  Speaker 1: no more seen on the darkening green. End of Songs
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  Speaker 1: of Innocence The Echoing Green. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Annie Coleman in Saint Louis, Missouri, in February two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and six. Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake.
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  Speaker 1: Songs of Innocence The Lamb, Little Lamb who made thee
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  Speaker 1: dost thou know who made THEE, gave thee life, and
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  Speaker 1: bid thee feed by the stream, and or the mead
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  Speaker 1: gave thee clothing of delight, softest clothing, wooly bright, gave
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  Speaker 1: THEE such a tender voice, making all the veils rejoice.
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  Speaker 1: Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
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  Speaker 1: Little Lamb, I'll tell THEE, Little Lamb, All tell THEE.
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  Speaker 1: He is called by thy name, for he calls himself
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  Speaker 1: a lamb. He is meek, and he is mild. He
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  Speaker 1: became a little child. I a child, and thou a lamb.
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  Speaker 1: We are called by his name, Little Lamb. God bless THEE,
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  Speaker 1: Little Lamb, God bless THEE. And of songs of Innocence
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  Speaker 1: the Lamb.
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  Speaker 2: on January sixteenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence
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  Speaker 2: and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence, The Little
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  Speaker 2: Black Boy, My Mother Bore Me in the Southern Wild
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  Speaker 2: and I am black, But oh, my soul is white,
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  Speaker 2: white as an angel is the English child. But I
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  Speaker 2: am black, as if bereaved of light. My mother taught
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  Speaker 2: me underneath a tree, and sitting down before the heat
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  Speaker 2: of day, she took me on her lap and kissed me, and,
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  Speaker 2: pointing to the east, began to say, look on the
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  Speaker 2: rising sun. There God does live and gives his light,
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  Speaker 2: and gives his heat away, and flowers and trees and
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  Speaker 2: beasts and men received comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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  Speaker 2: And we are put on earth a little space that
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  Speaker 2: we may learn to bear the beams of love. And
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  Speaker 2: these black bodies in this sun burnt face is but
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  Speaker 2: a cloud and like a shady grove. For when our
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  Speaker 2: souls have learned the heat to bear, the cloud will vanish.
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  Speaker 2: We shall hear his voice saying, come out from the
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  Speaker 2: grove my love and care, and round my golden tent
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  Speaker 2: like lambs, rejoice. Thus did my mother say, and kissed me.
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  Speaker 2: And thus I say to little English boy, when I
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  Speaker 2: from black, and he from white cloud free, and round
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  Speaker 2: the tent of God like lambs, we joy. I'll shade
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  Speaker 2: him from the heat so he can bear to lean
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  Speaker 2: enjoy upon our father's knee, and then I'll stand and
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  Speaker 2: stroke his silver hair and be like him, and he
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  Speaker 2: will then love me.
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  Speaker 3: End of.
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  Speaker 2: Songs of Innocence The Little Black Boy.
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  Speaker 4: January seventeenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 4: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence The Blossom, Merry, Merry,
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  Speaker 4: Sparrow underleaves so green. The happy Blossom sees you swift
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  Speaker 4: as arrow, seek your cradle, narrow near my bosom. Pretty
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  Speaker 4: pretty Robin under leaves so green, The Happy Blossom. Here's
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  Speaker 4: you sobbing, sobbing, Pretty pretty Robin near my bosom. Songs
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  Speaker 4: of Innocence The Blossom.
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  Speaker 2: on January seventeenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence
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  Speaker 2: and Experience by William Blake Songs of Innocence, The chimney Sweeper.
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  Speaker 2: When my mother died, I was very young, and my
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  Speaker 2: father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry, weep, weep, weep, weep.
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  Speaker 2: So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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  Speaker 2: There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head that
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  Speaker 2: curled like a lamb's back was shaved. So I said, hush, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: never mind it, for when your heads bare, you know
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  Speaker 2: that the soot cannot spoil your white hair. And so
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  Speaker 2: he was quiet. And that very night, as Tom was asleeping,
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  Speaker 2: he had such a sight that thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned,
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  Speaker 2: and Jack, were all of them locked up in coffins
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  Speaker 2: of black. And by came an angel who had a
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  Speaker 2: bright key, and he opened the coffins and set them
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  Speaker 2: all free. Then down a green plain, leaping laughing, they
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  Speaker 2: run and wash in a river and shine in the sun. Then,
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  Speaker 2: naked and white, all their bags left behind, they rise
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  Speaker 2: upon clouds and sport in the wind. And the angel
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  Speaker 2: told Tom, if he'd be a good boy, he'd have
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  Speaker 2: God for his father and never want joy. And so
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  Speaker 2: Tom awoke and we rose in the dark and got
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  Speaker 2: with our bags and our brushes to work. Though the
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  Speaker 2: morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm. So if
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  Speaker 2: all do their duty, they need not fear harm. End
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  Speaker 2: of Songs of Innocence The Chimney Sweeper.
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  Speaker 5: Marion Brown, Toronto, Canada. Songs of Innocence and Experience by
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  Speaker 5: William Blake. Songs of Innocence, The Little Boy Lost, Father, Father,
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  Speaker 5: Where are you going? Oh, do not walk so fast?
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  Speaker 5: Speak Father, Speak to your little boy, or else I
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  Speaker 5: shall be lost. The night was dark, no father was there.
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  Speaker 5: The child was wet with dew was deep, and the
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  Speaker 5: child did weep, and away the vapor flew. End of poem.
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  Speaker 5: Marian Brown, Toronto, Canada. Songs of Innocence and Experience by
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  Speaker 5: William Blake. The Little Boy Found, The Little Boy Lost
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  Speaker 5: in the lonely fen, led by the wandering light, began
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  Speaker 5: to cry. But God, ever nigh, appeared like his father
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  Speaker 5: in white. He kissed the child, and by the hand
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  Speaker 5: led and to his mother brought who in sorrow pale
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  Speaker 5: through the lonely dale, her little boy weeping sought. End
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  Speaker 5: Recording by Marry and Brown, Toronto, Canada. Songs of Innocence
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  Speaker 5: and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence, Laughing Song,
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  Speaker 5: when the greenwoods laugh with the voice of joy, and
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  Speaker 5: the dimpling stream runs laughing by, When the air does
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  Speaker 5: laugh with our merry wit, and the green hill laughs
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  Speaker 5: with the noise of it, When the meadows laugh with
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  Speaker 5: lively green and the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
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  Speaker 5: when Mary and Susan and Emilie with their sweet round
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  Speaker 5: mouths sing ha ha he, when the painted birds laugh
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  Speaker 5: in the shade where our table with cherries and nuts
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  Speaker 5: is spread. Come live and be merry, and join me
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  Speaker 5: to sing the sweet chorus of ha.
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  Speaker 6: Ha he.
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  Speaker 5: End of poem.
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  Speaker 4: on January seventeenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence
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  Speaker 4: and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence A cradle song,
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  Speaker 4: Sweet dreams for a shade or my lovely Infant's Head,
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  Speaker 4: Sweet dreams of pleasant streams by happy silent moony beams,
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  Speaker 4: Sweet sleep with solve down weave, thy brows, an infant crowns,
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  Speaker 4: sweet sleep, Angel, mild hoverar my happy child, Sweet smiles
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  Speaker 4: in the night, hover over my delight, sweet smiles, mother's smiles,
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  Speaker 4: all the livelong night, beguile's sweet moans, dove like sighs,
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  Speaker 4: chase not slumber from thy eyes, sweet mons, sweeter smiles,
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  Speaker 4: all the dovelike moans, beguiles, Sleep, Sleep, happy child, all
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  Speaker 4: creation slept and smiled, Sleep, Sleep, happy sleep. While o'er
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  Speaker 4: thee thy mother weep sweet Babe in thy face, holy image,
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  Speaker 4: I can trace sweet Babe. Once like thee thy maker
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  Speaker 4: lay and wept for me, wept for me, for THEE,
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  Speaker 4: for all when he was an infant. Small Thou his
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  Speaker 4: image ever see heavenly faith that smiles on THEE, smiles
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  Speaker 4: on THEE, on me, on all who became an infant
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  Speaker 4: small infant smiles are his own smiles. Heaven and Earth
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  Speaker 4: to peace beguiles. Songs of Innocence a cradle song. This
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  Speaker 4: February twentieth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 4: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence the Divine Image,
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  Speaker 4: to mercy, pity, peace, and love. All pray in their distress,
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  Speaker 4: and to these virtues of delight return their thankfulness. For mercy, pity,
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  Speaker 4: peace and love is God our father, dear and mercy, Pity,
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  Speaker 4: peace and love is man his child, and care for
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  Speaker 4: mercy has a human heart, pity a human face, and
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  Speaker 4: love the human form, divine and peace the human dress.
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  Speaker 4: Then every man of every crime that prays in his
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  Speaker 4: distress prays to the human form divine love, mercy, pity, peace,
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  Speaker 4: and all must love the human form in Heathen, Turk
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  Speaker 4: or Jew where mercy, love and pity dwell there, God
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  Speaker 4: is dwelling too, So ends the divine image.
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  Speaker 2: January nineteenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 2: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence, Holy Thursday, Twas
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  Speaker 2: on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean. The children
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  Speaker 2: walking two and two in red and blue and green,
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  Speaker 2: gray headed beatles walked before with one as white as snow,
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  Speaker 2: till into the high dome of palls. They like Thames
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  Speaker 2: waters flow. Oh what a multitude they seemed, these flowers
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  Speaker 2: of London town. Seated in companies, they sit with radiance
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  Speaker 2: all their own. The hum of multitudes was there, but
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  Speaker 2: multitudes of lambs, thousands of little boys and girls raising
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  Speaker 2: their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raised
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  Speaker 2: to heaven the voice of song, or like harmonious thunderings,
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  Speaker 2: the seats of heaven, among beneath them sit the aged men,
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  Speaker 2: wise guardians of the poor. Then cherish pity, lest you
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  Speaker 2: drive an angel from your door. End of Songs of Innocence,
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  Speaker 2: Holy Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: on January seventeenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence
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  Speaker 4: and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence Night, the
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  Speaker 4: sun descending in the west, the evening star does shine.
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  Speaker 4: The birds are silent in their nest, and I must
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  Speaker 4: seek for mine the moon. Like a flower in Heaven's
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  Speaker 4: high bower, with silent delight, sits and smiles on the night.
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  Speaker 4: Farewell green fields and happy groves, where flocks have took delight,
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  Speaker 4: where lambs have nibbled, silent moves, the feet of angels
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  Speaker 4: bright unseen. They pour blessing and joy without ceasing, on
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  Speaker 4: each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom. They look
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  Speaker 4: in every thoughtless nest where birds are cover'd warm. They
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  Speaker 4: visit caves of every beast, to keep them all from harm.
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  Speaker 4: If they see any weeping that should have been sleeping,
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  Speaker 4: they pour sleep on their head and sit down by
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  Speaker 4: their bed. When wolves and tigers howl for prey, they pitying,
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  Speaker 4: stand and weep, seeking to drive their thirst away and
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  Speaker 4: keep them from the sheep. But if they rush, dreadful,
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  Speaker 4: the angels most heedful receive each mild spirit new worlds
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  Speaker 4: to inherit. And there the lion's ruddy eyes shall flow
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  Speaker 4: with tears of gold and pitying the tender cries, and
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  Speaker 4: walking round the fold, saying wrath by his meekness and
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  Speaker 4: by his health. Sickness is driven away from our immortal day.
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  Speaker 4: And now beside thee bleating lamb, I can lie down
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  Speaker 4: and sleep, or think on him who bore thy name.
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  Speaker 4: Graze after thee, and weep for wash'd in life's river.
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  Speaker 4: My bright man forever shall shine like the gold as
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  Speaker 4: iye guard or the fold songs of innocence.
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  Speaker 3: Night.
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  Speaker 4: on February twentieth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence
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  Speaker 4: and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence Spring, Sound
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  Speaker 4: the flute, Now it's mute, Birds delight, day and night,
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  Speaker 4: nightingale in the dale, lark in sky, merrily, merrily, merrily,
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  Speaker 4: to welcome in the year. Little boy full of joy,
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  Speaker 4: little girl, sweet and small coctas grow, So do you
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  Speaker 4: merry voice, infant noise, merrily merrily, to welcome in the year.
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  Speaker 4: Little lamb, here I am, come and lick my white neck.
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  Speaker 4: Let me pull your soft wool, Let me kiss your
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  Speaker 4: soft face. Merrily merrily, We welcome in the year. So
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  Speaker 4: ends spring.
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  Speaker 2: January seventeenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 2: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence Nurse's song, When
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  Speaker 2: the voices of children are heard on the green and
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  Speaker 2: laughing is heard on the hill. My heart is at
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  Speaker 2: rest within my breast, and everything else is still. Then
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  Speaker 2: come home, my children. The sun is gone down and
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  Speaker 2: the dews of night arise.
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  Speaker 3: Come.
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  Speaker 2: Come, leave off play, and let us away till the
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  Speaker 2: morning appears in the skies. No, no, let us play,
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  Speaker 2: for it is yet day and we cannot go to sleep. Besides,
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  Speaker 2: in the sky the little birds fly, and the hills
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  Speaker 2: are all covered with sheep. Well, we'll go and play
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  Speaker 2: till the light fades away, and then go home to bed.
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  Speaker 2: The little ones leaped and shouted and laughed in all
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  Speaker 2: the hills echoed end of Songs of Innocence Nurse's song.
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  Speaker 4: on February twentieth, two thousand six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 4: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence Infant Joy. I
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  Speaker 4: have no name. I am but two days old? What
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  Speaker 4: shall I call THEE? I happy? Am? Joy? Is my
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  Speaker 4: name sweet joy? Before thee pretty joy? Sweet Joy? But
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  Speaker 4: two days old? Sweet Joy? I call THEE Thou dost smile?
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  Speaker 4: I sing the while sweet joy befall thee so ends
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  Speaker 4: on January seventeenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence
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  Speaker 4: and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence A dream?
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  Speaker 4: Once a dream? Did weave a shade? Or my angel
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  Speaker 4: guarded bed? That an emmet lost its way? Whereon grass methought?
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  Speaker 4: I lay troubled, wilder'd and forlorn, dark, benighted, travel worn
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  Speaker 4: over many a tangled spray, all heart broke. I heard
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  Speaker 4: her say, O, my children did they cry? Do they
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  Speaker 4: hear their fathers sigh? Now? They look abroad to see?
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  Speaker 4: Now return and weep for me pitying. I dropp'd a tear,
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  Speaker 4: But I saw a glow worm near, who replied, what
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  Speaker 4: wailing white calls the watchman of the night. I am
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  Speaker 4: set to light the ground while the beetle is around.
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  Speaker 4: Follow now the beetle's hum, Little wanderer, hie thee home.
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  Speaker 4: Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake. Songs of
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  Speaker 4: Innocence On Another's Sorrow? Can I see another's woe and
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  Speaker 4: not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief
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  Speaker 4: and not seek for kind relief? Can I see a
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  Speaker 4: falling tear and not feel my sorrow's share? Can a
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  Speaker 4: father see his child weep, nor be with sorrow filled?
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  Speaker 4: Can a mother sit and hear an infant groan an
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  Speaker 4: and fear? No? No, never, can it be? Never?
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  Speaker 3: Never?
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  Speaker 4: Can it be? And can he who smiles on all
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  Speaker 4: hear the wren with sorrows small, hear the small bird's
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  Speaker 4: grief and care, hear the woes that infants bear, and
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  Speaker 4: not sit beside the nest, pouring pity in their breast,
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  Speaker 4: and not sit in the cradle near weeping tear on
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  Speaker 4: infants tear, and not sit both night and day wiping
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  Speaker 4: all our tears away? Oh? No, never, can it be?
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  Speaker 3: Never?
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  Speaker 4: Never can it be. He doth give his joy to all,
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  Speaker 4: He becomes an infant small, he becomes a man of woe.
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  Speaker 4: He doth feel the sorrow too. Think not thou canst
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  Speaker 4: sigh a sigh, and thy maker is not by Think
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  Speaker 4: not thou canst weep a tear, and thy maker is
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  Speaker 4: not near. Oh, he who gives to us his joy,
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  Speaker 4: that our grief he may destroy, till our grief is
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  Speaker 4: fled and gone, he doth sit by us and moan
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  Speaker 4: by Chip in Tampa, Florida, on January seventeenth, two thousand
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  Speaker 4: and six. Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake.
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  Speaker 4: Songs of Experience introduction. Hear the voice of the Bard
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  Speaker 4: who present, past and future sees, whose ears have heard
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  Speaker 4: the Holy word that wont among the ancient trees, calling
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  Speaker 4: the laps'd soul and weeping in the evening dew that
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  Speaker 4: might control the starry pole and fallen fallen light. Renew
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  Speaker 4: O Earth, O Earth, Return arise from out the dewy grass.
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  Speaker 4: Night is worn, and the morn rises from the slumbrous mass.
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  Speaker 4: Turn away no more? Why wilt thou turn away the
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  Speaker 4: starry floor, the watery shore is given thee till the
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  Speaker 4: break of day. Songs of ex Variance introduction.
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  Speaker 6: Songs of Experience, Earth's Answer. Earth raised up her head
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  Speaker 6: from the darkness, dread and drear, Her light fled stony dread,
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  Speaker 6: and her locks covered with gray despair. Prisoned on watery shore,
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  Speaker 6: starry jealousy does keep my den cold and horror weeping.
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  Speaker 6: O'er I hear the father of the ancient men, selfish
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  Speaker 6: father of men. Cruel, jealous, selfish fear can delight chain'd
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  Speaker 6: in night the virgins of youth and morning bear? Does
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  Speaker 6: spring hide its joy when buds and blossoms grow? Does
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  Speaker 6: the sower so by night? Or the plowmen in darkness?
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  Speaker 6: Plow break this heavy chain that does freeze my bones around?
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  Speaker 6: Selfish vain eternal bane, that free love with bondage bound
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  Speaker 6: Earth's Answer from the Songs of Experience. This is a
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  Speaker 6: Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience,
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  Speaker 6: The Clod and the Pebble. Love seeketh not itself to please,
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  Speaker 6: nor for itself hath any care, but for another, gives
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  Speaker 6: its ease and builds a heaven in hell's despair. Sos
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  Speaker 6: on the little clod of clay trodden with the cattle's feet,
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  Speaker 6: but a pebble of the brook warble out these meters meet.
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  Speaker 6: Love seeketh only self to please, to bind another to
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  Speaker 6: its delight, joy's in another's loss of ease, and builds
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  Speaker 6: a hell in Heaven's despite. End of the Clod and
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  Speaker 6: the Pebble from Blake's Songs of Experience.
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  Speaker 2: January nineteenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 2: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience, Holy Thursday. Is
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  Speaker 2: this a holy thing to see? In a rich and
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  Speaker 2: fruitful land? Babes reduced to misery, fed with cold and
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  Speaker 2: Usureu's hand? Is that trembling cry a song? Can it
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: be a song of joy? And so many children poor?
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  Speaker 2: It is a land of poverty, And their sun does
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  Speaker 2: never shine, and their fields are bleak and bare, and
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  Speaker 2: their ways are filled with thorns. It is eternal winter there.
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  Speaker 2: For where air the sun does shine, and where e'er
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  Speaker 2: the rain does fall, bade can never hunger there, nor
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  Speaker 2: poverty the mind appall. End of Songs of Experience, Holy Thursday.
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  Speaker 6: Songs of Experience. The Little Girl Lost in Futurity. I
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  Speaker 6: prophesy that the earth, from sleep grave, the sentence deep,
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  Speaker 6: shall arise and seek for her maker meek, and the
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  Speaker 6: desert wild become a garden mild in the southern clime,
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  Speaker 6: where the summer's prime never fades away, lovely like a lay,
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  Speaker 6: seven summers old, lovely like a told. She had wandered long,
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  Speaker 6: hearing the wild bird's song. Sweet sleep, come to me
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  Speaker 6: underneath this tree, Do father, mother weep? Where can like
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  Speaker 6: a sleep? Lost in desert? Wild? Is your little child?
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  Speaker 6: How can like a sleep? If her mother weep, if
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  Speaker 6: her heart does ache, then let like awake. If my
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  Speaker 6: mother sleep like a shall not weep? Frowning, frowning night
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  Speaker 6: o'er this desert bright, Let thy moon arise while I
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  Speaker 6: close my eyes, sleeping like a lay. While the beasts
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  Speaker 6: of prey come from caverns deep view'd the maid asleep.
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  Speaker 6: The kingly lion stood, and the virgin view'd. Then he
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  Speaker 6: gamboled round o'er the hollow ground. Leopards tigers play round
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  Speaker 6: her as she lay, while the lion old bowed his
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  Speaker 6: mane of gold and her bosom lick, and upon her
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  Speaker 6: neck from his eyes of flame, ruby tears there came,
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  Speaker 6: while the lioness loosed her slender dress and naked. They
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  Speaker 6: conveyed to Cave's the sleeping maid and of the little
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  Speaker 6: girl lost from Blake's Songs of Experience. This is a
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  Speaker 6: Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience.
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  Speaker 6: The little girl found all the night in woe like
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  Speaker 6: as parents go over valleys deep while the desert sweep
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  Speaker 6: tired and woe begone, hoarse, with making moan arm in arm.
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  Speaker 6: Seven days they traced the desert ways. Seven nights they
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  Speaker 6: sleep among shadows deep and dream they see their child
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  Speaker 6: starved and desert wild pale through pathless ways. The fancied
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  Speaker 6: image strays famished, weeping, weak with hollow, piteous shriek rising
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  Speaker 6: from unrest. The trembling woman pressed with feet of weary woe,
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: she could no further goo in his arms arms he
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  Speaker 6: bore her, armed with sorrow sore, till before their way
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  Speaker 6: a crouching lion lay, turning back was vain. Soon his
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  Speaker 6: heavy mane bore them to the ground. Then he stalked around,
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  Speaker 6: smelling to his prey. But their fears allay when he
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  Speaker 6: licks their hands, and silent by them, stands. They look
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  Speaker 6: upon his eyes filled with deep surprise and wondering. Behold
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  Speaker 6: a spirit armed in gold on his head, a crown
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  Speaker 6: on his shoulders. Down flowed his golden hair. Gone was
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  Speaker 6: all their care. Follow me, he said, weep not for
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  Speaker 6: the maid in my palace. Deep Laika lies asleep. Then
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  Speaker 6: they followed where the vision led and saw their sleeping
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  Speaker 6: child among tigers wild. To this day they dwell in
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  Speaker 6: a lonely dell. Nor fear the wolfish howl, nor the
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  Speaker 6: lions growl. End of the little Girl. Found from William
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  Speaker 6: Blake's Songs of Experience.
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  Speaker 2: on January seventeenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence
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  Speaker 2: and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience The chimney Sweeper,
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  Speaker 2: A little black thing among the snow, crying weep weep
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  Speaker 2: in notes of woe? Where are thy? Father and mother? Say?
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  Speaker 2: They are both gone up to the church to pray.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Because I was happy upon the heath and smiled among
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  Speaker 2: the winter's snow. They clothed me in the close of
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  Speaker 2: death and taught me to sing the notes of woe.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: And because I am happy and dance and sing, they
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  Speaker 2: think they have done me no injury, and are gone
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  Speaker 2: to praise God and his priest and King, who make
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  Speaker 2: up a heaven of our misery. End of Songs of
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  Speaker 2: Experience The Chimney Sweeper. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 2: thousand and six. Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake.
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  Speaker 2: Songs of Experience.
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  Speaker 3: Nurses Song.
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  Speaker 2: When the voices of children are heard on the green,
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  Speaker 2: and whisperings are in the day, The days of my
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  Speaker 2: youth rise fresh in my mind, my face turns green
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  Speaker 2: and pale. Then come home, my children, the sun is
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  Speaker 2: gone down, and the dews of night arise. Your spring
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  Speaker 2: and your day are wasted in play, and your winter
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  Speaker 2: and night in disguise. End of Songs of Experience Nurses Song.
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  Speaker 6: Hm.
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  Speaker 4: by Chip in Tampa, Florida, on January sixteenth, two thousand
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  Speaker 4: and six. Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake.
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  Speaker 4: Songs of Experience. The Sick Rose, Oh Rose, Thou Art sick,
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  Speaker 4: The invisible worm that flies in the night, in the
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  Speaker 4: howling storm has found out thy bed of crimson Joy
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  Speaker 4: and his dark secret love does thy life destroy?
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  Speaker 3: By William Blake.
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  Speaker 2: January nineteenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 2: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience, The Fly, Little Fly,
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  Speaker 2: Thy Summers play my thoughtless hand as brush away? Am
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  Speaker 2: not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou
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  Speaker 2: a man like me? For I dance and drink and
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  Speaker 2: sing till some blind hand shall brush my wing. If
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  Speaker 2: thought is life and strength and breath, and the want
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  Speaker 2: of thought is death. Then am I a happy fly?
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  Speaker 2: If I live or if I die? End of Psalms
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  Speaker 2: of Experience the Fly.
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  Speaker 4: on January seventeenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence
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  Speaker 4: and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience the Angel.
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  Speaker 4: I dreamt a dream, What can it mean? And that
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  Speaker 4: I was a maiden queen guarded by an angel, mild, witless,
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  Speaker 4: woe was ne'er beguiled. And I wept both night and day.
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  Speaker 4: And he wiped my tears away. And I wept both
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  Speaker 4: day and night, and hid from him my heart's delight.
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  Speaker 4: So he took his wings and fled.
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  Speaker 3: Then the morn.
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  Speaker 4: Blushed rosy red. I dried my tears and armed my
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  Speaker 4: fears with ten thousand shields and spears. Soon my angel
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  Speaker 4: came again. I was armed. He came in vain, for
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  Speaker 4: the time of youth was fled, and gray hairs were
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  Speaker 4: on my head. Songs of experience the Angel.
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  Speaker 3: The Tiger by William Blake Tiger Tiger burning bright in
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  Speaker 3: the forests of the night? What immortal hand or I
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  Speaker 3: could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what dis int deeps
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  Speaker 3: or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes? On What
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  Speaker 3: wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?
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  Speaker 3: And what shoulder? And what art could twist the sinews
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  Speaker 3: of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat?
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: What dread hand? And what dread feet? What the hammer?
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What
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  Speaker 3: the anvil? What dread grasp? Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: When the stars threw down their spears and watered heaven
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  Speaker 3: with their tears? Did he smile his work to see?
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  Speaker 3: Did he who made the lamb make thee tiger? Tiger
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  Speaker 3: burning bright in the forests of the night? What immortal
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  Speaker 3: hand or I dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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  Speaker 1: in February two thousand six. Songs of Innocence and Experience
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  Speaker 1: by William Blake, Songs of Experience, My Pretty Rose Tree.
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  Speaker 1: A flower was offered to me, such a flower as
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  Speaker 1: may never bore. But I said, I've a pretty rose tree,
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  Speaker 1: and I passed the sweet flower. Or then I went
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  Speaker 1: to my pretty rose tree to tend her by day
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  Speaker 1: and by night. But my rose turned away with jealousy,
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  Speaker 1: and her thorns were my only delight. And of songs
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  Speaker 1: of Experience, My Pretty Rose Tree.
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  Speaker 6: Songs of Experience, Ah Sunflower, Ah Sunflower. Weary of time,
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  Speaker 6: who countess the steps of the sun, seeking after that
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  Speaker 6: sweet golden clime where the traveler's journey is done, where
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  Speaker 6: the youth pined away with desire, and the pale virgin,
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  Speaker 6: shrouded in snow, arise from their graves and aspire, where
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: my sunflower wishes to call of ah Sunflower from William
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  Speaker 6: and Experience by William Blake, Songs of Experience. The Lily,
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  Speaker 6: the modest rose puts forth a thorn, the humble sheep
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  Speaker 6: a threatening horn, While the lily white shall in love delight,
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  Speaker 6: nor a thorn, nor a threat stain her beauty. Bright
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  Speaker 6: End of the Lily from William Blake's Songs of Experience.
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  Speaker 6: Songs of Experience, The Garden of Love. I went to
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  Speaker 6: the Garden of Love and saw what I never had seen.
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  Speaker 6: A chapel was built in the midst where I used
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  Speaker 6: to play on the green. And the gates of this
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  Speaker 6: chapel were shut, and thou shalt not writ over the door.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: So I turned to the garden of Love that so
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  Speaker 6: many sweet flowers bore, and I saw it was filled
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  Speaker 6: with graves and tombstones where flowers should be, and priests
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  Speaker 6: in black gowns were walking there rounds and binding with
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  Speaker 6: briars My joys and desires. End of the Garden of
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  Speaker 6: Love from William Blake's Songs of Experience.
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  Speaker 4: on January seventeenth, two thousand six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 4: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience, The Little Vagabond,
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  Speaker 4: Dear Mother, Dear Mother. The church is cold, but the
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  Speaker 4: alehouse is healthy and pleasant and warm. Besides, I can
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  Speaker 4: tell where I am used well. Such usage in heaven
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  Speaker 4: will never do well. But if at the church they
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  Speaker 4: would give us some ale and a pleasant fire, our
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  Speaker 4: souls to regale, we'd sing, and we'd pray all the
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  Speaker 4: livelong day. Nor ever once wish from the church to stray,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: then the parson might preach and drink and sing, and
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: we'd be happy. As birds in the spring, and modest
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  Speaker 4: Dame Lurch, who is always at church, would not have
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  Speaker 4: bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch, and God like a
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  Speaker 4: father rejoicing to see his children as pleasant and happy
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  Speaker 4: as he, would have no more quarrel with devil or
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: the barrel, but kiss him and give him both drink
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: and apparel. Songs of Experience The Little Vagabond.
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  Speaker 2: January nineteenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 2: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience, London. I wander
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  Speaker 2: through each chartered street near where the Chartered Thames does flow,
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  Speaker 2: and mark in every face.
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  Speaker 3: I meet.
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  Speaker 2: Marks of weakness, marks of woe, in every cry of
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  Speaker 2: every man, in every infant's cry of fear, in every voice,
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  Speaker 2: in every band the mind forged manacles.
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  Speaker 3: I hear.
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  Speaker 2: How the chimney sweepers cry, every blackening church appalls, and
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  Speaker 2: the hapless soldier's sigh runs in blood down palace walls,
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  Speaker 2: but most through midnight streets. I hear how the youthful
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  Speaker 2: Harlot's curse blasts the new born infant's tear and blights
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  Speaker 2: with plagues the marriage hearse and of songs of Experience, London.
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  Speaker 6: Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake. Songs of
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  Speaker 6: Experience The human abstract Pity would be no more if
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  Speaker 6: we did not make somebody poor, and mercy no more
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  Speaker 6: could be if all were as happy as we, and
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  Speaker 6: mutual fear brings peace till the selfish loves increase. Then
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  Speaker 6: cruelty knits an air and spreads his baits with care.
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  Speaker 6: He sits down with holy fears and waters the ground
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  Speaker 6: with tears. Then humility takes its root underneath his foot.
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  Speaker 6: Soon spreads the dismal shade of mystery over his head.
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  Speaker 6: And the caterpillar and fly feed on the mystery, and
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  Speaker 6: it bears the fruit of deceit, ruddy and sweet to eat.
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  Speaker 6: And the raven his nest has made in its thickest
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  Speaker 6: shade the gods of Earth and Sea sought through nature
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  Speaker 6: to find this tree, but their search was all in vain.
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  Speaker 6: There grows one in the human brain. End of the
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  Speaker 6: Human abstract from William Blake's Songs of Experience. This is
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  Speaker 6: Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience,
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  Speaker 6: Infant Sorrow. My mother groaned, my father wept into the
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  Speaker 6: dangerous world. I leapt helpless, naked, piping loud like a fiend,
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  Speaker 6: hid in a cloud, struggling in my father's hands, striving
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  Speaker 6: against my swaddling bands. Bound and weary, I thought best
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  Speaker 6: to sulk upon my mother's breast. End of Infant Sorrow
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  Speaker 6: from William Blake's Songs of Experience. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 6: and Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience, The Poison Tree.
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  Speaker 6: I was angry with my friend. I told my wrath
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  Speaker 6: my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe.
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  Speaker 6: I told it not. My wrath did grow, and I
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  Speaker 6: ordered it in fears night and morning with my tears,
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  Speaker 6: and I sunned it with smiles and with soft, deceitful wiles.
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  Speaker 6: Then it grew both day and night till it bore
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  Speaker 6: an apple bright, and my foe beheld it shine, and
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  Speaker 6: he knew that it was mine. And into my garden
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  Speaker 6: stole when the night had veiled the pole, and the
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  Speaker 6: morning glad, I see my foe outstretched beneath the tree,
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  Speaker 6: end of a poisoned tree. From William Blake's Songs of Experience.
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  Speaker 4: January seventeenth, two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 4: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience. A little boy
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  Speaker 4: lost not loves another as itself, nor venerates another soul.
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  Speaker 4: Nor is it possible to thought a greater than itself?
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  Speaker 3: To know?
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  Speaker 4: And Father? How can I love you or any of
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  Speaker 4: my brothers more? I love you like the little bird
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  Speaker 4: that picks up crumbs around the door. The priests sat
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  Speaker 4: by and heard the child in trembling zeal. He seized
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  Speaker 4: his hair and led him by his little coat, and
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  Speaker 4: all admired his priestly care, and standing on the altar
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  Speaker 4: high lo what a fiend is here? Said he, one
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  Speaker 4: who sets reason up for judge of our most holy mystery.
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  Speaker 4: The weeping child could not be heard. The weeping parents
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  Speaker 4: wept in vain. They stripp'd him to his little shirt,
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  Speaker 4: and bound him in an iron chain, and burned him
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  Speaker 4: in a holy place where many had been burned before.
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  Speaker 4: The weeping parents wept in vain. Are such things done?
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  Speaker 4: On Albion Shore? Songs of Experience, A Little Boy Lost.
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  Speaker 4: on January seventeen, two thousand six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 4: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience A Little Girl Lost.
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  Speaker 4: Children of the future age reading this indignant page know
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  Speaker 4: that in a former time, Love, sweet love, was thought
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  Speaker 4: a crime. In the age of gold, free from winter's cold,
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  Speaker 4: youth and maiden bright to the Holy light, naked in
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  Speaker 4: the sunny beams of delight. Once a youthful pair filled
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  Speaker 4: with softest care met in garden bright, where the Holy
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  Speaker 4: Light had just remov'd the curtains of the night. There
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  Speaker 4: in rising day on the grass they play parents, Where
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  Speaker 4: afar strangers came not near, and the maiden soon forgot
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  Speaker 4: her fear. Tired with kisses sweet, they agreed to meet
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  Speaker 4: when the silent sleep waves o'er heavens deep, and the weary,
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  Speaker 4: tired wanderers weep to her father White came the maiden bright,
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  Speaker 4: but his loving look like a holy book. All her
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  Speaker 4: tender limbs with terror shook, una pale and weak to
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  Speaker 4: thy father, speak O the trembling fear, Oh, the dismal
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  Speaker 4: care that shakes the blossoms of my hoary hair. Songs
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  Speaker 4: of experience, A little girl lost.
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  Speaker 3: o r G. This reading by Gordon Mackenzie A Divine
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  Speaker 3: Image by William Blake. Cruelty has a human heart and jealousy,
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  Speaker 3: a human face, terror, the human form, divine and secrecy
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  Speaker 3: the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, the
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  Speaker 3: human form a fiery forge. The human face a furnace
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  Speaker 3: sealed the human heart. It's hungry, gorge.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All librivax recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: in February two thousand and six. Songs of Innocence and
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  Speaker 1: Experience by William Blake. Songs of Experience A cradle song, sleep, sleep, beauty, bright,
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  Speaker 1: dreaming in the joys of night. Sleep, Sleep in thy sleep,
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  Speaker 1: little sorrows, sit and weep, sweet babe in thy face,
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  Speaker 1: soft desires. I can trace secret joys and secret smiles,
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  Speaker 1: little pretty infant whiles as thy softest limbs. I feel
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  Speaker 1: smiles as of the mornings, steal o'er thy cheek and
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  Speaker 1: o'er thy breast. Wear thy little heart doth rest, oh
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  Speaker 1: the cunning wiles that creep in thy little heart is sleep.
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  Speaker 1: When thy little heart doth wake, then the dreadful light
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  Speaker 1: shall break end of Songs of Experience a cradle song.
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  Speaker 1: in February two thousand six. Songs of Innocence and Experience
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  Speaker 1: by William Blake. Songs of Experience, The Schoolboy. I love
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  Speaker 1: to rise in a summer morn, when the birds sing
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  Speaker 1: on every tree, the distant huntsman winds his horn, and
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  Speaker 1: the skylark sings with me. Oh, what sweet company. But
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  Speaker 1: to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it
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  Speaker 1: drives all joy away Under a cruel eye. Outworn, the
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  Speaker 1: little one spend the day in sighing and dismay. And
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  Speaker 1: then at times I drooping sit and spend many an
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  Speaker 1: anxious hour. Nor in my book can I take delight,
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  Speaker 1: Nor in learning's bower worn through with a dreary shower.
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  Speaker 1: How can the bird that is born for joy sit
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  Speaker 1: in a cage and sing? How can a child one
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  Speaker 1: fears annoy but droop his tender wing and forget his
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  Speaker 1: youthful spring? O father and Mother if buds are nipped
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  Speaker 1: and blossoms blown away, and if the tender plants are
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  Speaker 1: stripped of their joy in the springing day by sorrow
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  Speaker 1: and care's dismay, how shall the summer arise in joy
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  Speaker 1: or the summer fruits appear? Or how shall we gather
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  Speaker 1: what griefs destroy or bless the mellowing year? When the
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  Speaker 1: blasts of winter appear? And of songs of experience the schoolboy.
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  Speaker 1: in February two thousand six. Songs of Innocence and Experience
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  Speaker 1: by William Blake. Songs of Experience to terza, whate'er is
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  Speaker 1: born of mortal birth must be consumed with the earth
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  Speaker 1: to rise from generation free? Then what have I to
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  Speaker 1: do with thee? The sexes sprung from shame and pride
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  Speaker 1: blowed in the morn in evening did but mercy changed
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  Speaker 1: death into sleep? The sexes rose to work and weep, thou,
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  Speaker 1: mother of my mortal part with cruelty, didst mold my
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  Speaker 1: heart and with false self deceiving tears, didst blind my nostrils,
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  Speaker 1: eyes and ears? Didst close my tongue in senseless clay,
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  Speaker 1: and me to mortal life betray the death of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: set me free? Then? What have I to do with
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  Speaker 1: thee and of Songs of Experience to Terza. This is
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  Speaker 1: Recorded by Annie Coleman in Saint Louis, Missouri, in February
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  Speaker 1: two thousand six. Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake.
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  Speaker 1: Songs of Experience the voice of the ancient, barred youth
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  Speaker 1: of delight. Come hither and see the opening morn image
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  Speaker 1: of truth, new born doubt is fled and clouds of reason,
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  Speaker 1: dark disputes and artful teasing. Folly is an endless maze,
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  Speaker 1: tangled roots, perplex her ways. How many have fallen there?
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  Speaker 1: They stumble all night over bones of the dead, and
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  Speaker 1: feel they know not what, but care and wish to
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  Speaker 1: lead others when they should be led. End of Songs
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  Speaker 1: of Experience. The voice of the Ancient Bard and end
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  Speaker 1: of Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake,