{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/sie/sie25.htm","path":"neu/eng/sie/sie25.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sie/sie25.htm","text":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, [1789-1794]\nEarth rais\u2019d up her head,\n From the darkness dread & drear,\n Her light fled:\n Stony dread!\n And her locks cover\u2019d with grey despair.\nPrison\u2019d on watry shore\n Starry Jealousy does keep my den\n Cold and hoar\n Weeping o\u2019er\n I hear the Father of the ancient men\nSelfish father of men\n Cruel jealous selfish fear\n Can delight\n Chain\u2019d in night\n The virgins of youth and morning bear.\nDoes spring hide its joy\n When buds and blossoms grow?\n Does the sower?\n Sow by night?\n Or the plowman in darkness plow?\nBreak this heavy chain,\n That does freeze my bones around\n Selfish! vain!\n Eternal bane!\n That free Love with bondage bound.","title":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Songs of Experience...","type":"page"}