{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/sie/sie21.htm","path":"neu/eng/sie/sie21.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sie/sie21.htm","text":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, [1789-1794]\nCan I see anothers woe,\n And not be in sorrow too.\n Can I see anothers grief,\n And not seek for kind relief.\nCan I see a falling tear,\n And not feel my sorrows share,\n Can a father see his child,\n Weep, nor be with sorrow fill\u2019d.\nCan a mother sit and hear,\n An infant groan an infant fear\u2014\n No no never can it be.\n Never never can it be.\nAnd can he who smiles on all\n Hear the wren with sorrows small,\n Hear the small birds grief & care\n Hear the woes that infants bear\u2014\nAnd not sit beside the nest\n Pouring pity in their breast.\n And not sit the cradle near\n Weeping tear on infants tear.\nAnd not sit both night & day,\n Wiping all our tears away.\n O! no never can it be.\n Never never can it be.\nHe doth give his joy to all.\n He becomes an infant small.\n He becomes a man of woe\n He doth feel the sorrow too.\nThink not, thou canst sigh a sigh,\n And thy maker is not by.\n Think not, thou canst weep a tear,\n And thy maker is not near.\nO! he gives to us his joy,\n That our grief he may destroy\n Till our grief is fled & gone\n He doth sit by us and moan","title":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Songs of Innocence:...","type":"page"}