Songs+of+Experience

Love seeketh not Itself to please,
 * [|Plate 4] |||| ===**The Clod & the Pebble** ===
 * [|Plate 4] |||| ===**The Clod & the Pebble** ===

 Nor for itself hath any care;

 But for another gives its ease,

 And builds a Heaven in Hells despair. So sang a little Clod of Clay,

 Trodden with the cattles feet:

 But a Pebble of the brook,

 Warbled out these metres meet. Love seeketh only Self to please,

 To bind another to Its delight:

 Joys in anothers loss of ease,

 And builds a Hell in Heavens despite. || Is this a holy thing to see,
 * [|Plate 5] |||| ===**Holy Thursday** ===

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> In a rich and fruitful land,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Babes reducd to misery,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Fed with cold and usurous hand? <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">Is that trembling cry a song!

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Can it be a song of joy?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> And so many children poor,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> It is a land of poverty! <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">And their sun does never shine.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> And their fields are bleak & bare.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> And their ways are fill'd with thorns

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> It is eternal winter there. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">For where-e'er the sun does shine,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> And where-e'er the rain does fall:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Babe can never hunger there,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Nor poverty the mind appall. || <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">In futurity
 * [|Plate 6] |||| ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">**The Little Girl Lost** ===

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> I prophetic see,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> That the earth from sleep,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> (Grave the sentence deep) <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">Shall arise and seek

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> For her maker meek:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> And the desart wild

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Become a garden mild. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">In the southern clime,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Where the summers prime,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Never fades away;

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Lovely Lyca lay. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">Seven summers old

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Lovely Lyca told.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> She had wanderd long.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Hearing wild birds song. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">Sweet sleep come to me

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Underneath this tree;

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Do father, mother weep.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Where can Lyca sleep. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">Lost in desart wild

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Is your little child.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> How can Lyca sleep,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> If her mother weep. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">If her heart does ake,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Then let Lyca wake;

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> If my mother sleep,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Lyca shall not weep. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">Frowning frowning night,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> O'er this desart bright,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Let thy moon arise,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> While I close my eyes. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">Sleeping Lyca lay;

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> While the beasts of prey,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Come from caverns deep,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> View'd the maid asleep <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">The kingly lion stood

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> And the virgin view'd,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Then he gambold round

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> O'er the hallowd ground; ||
 * [|Plate 7] |||| <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">Leopards, tygers play,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Round her as she lay;

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> While the lion old,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Bow'd his mane of gold. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">And her bosom lick,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> And upon her neck,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> From his eyes of Bame,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Ruby tears there came; <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">While the lioness,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Loos'd her slender dress.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> And naked they convey'd

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> To caves the sleeping maid.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">**The Little Girl Found**
<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">All the night in woe,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Lyca's parents go:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Over vallies deep,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> While the desarts weep. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">Tired and woe-begone,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Hoarse with making moan:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Arm in arm seven days,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> They trac'd the desart ways. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">Seven nights they sleep,

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Among shadows deep:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> And dream they see their child

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> Starved in desart wild. <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;">Pale thro' pathless ways

<span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif,Times,Bookman;"> The fancied image strays, ||