{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/sie/sie20.htm","path":"neu/eng/sie/sie20.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sie/sie20.htm","text":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, [1789-1794]\nOnce a dream did weave a shade,\n O\u2019er my Angel-guarded bed,\n That an Emmet lost it's way\n Where on grass methought I lay.\nTroubled wilderd and folorn\n Dark benighted travel-worn,\n Over many a tangled spray,\n All heart-broke I heard her say.\nO my children! do they cry,\n Do they hear their father sigh.\n Now they look abroad to see,\n Now return and weep for me.\nPitying I drop\u2019d a tear:\n But I saw a glow-worm near:\n Who replied, What wailing wight\n Calls the watchman of the night.\nI am set to light the ground,\n While the beetle goes his round:\n Follow now the beetles hum,\n Little wanderer hie thee home.","title":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Songs of Innocence:...","type":"page"}