{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/sie/sie26.htm","path":"neu/eng/sie/sie26.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sie/sie26.htm","text":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, [1789-1794]\nLove seeketh not Itself to please,\n Nor for itself hath any care;\n But for another gives its ease,\n And builds a Heaven in Hells despair.\nSo sang a little Clod of Clay,\n Trodden with the cattles feet;\n But a Pebble of the brook,\n Warbled out these metres meet.\nLove seeketh only Self to please,\n To bind another to Its delight:\n Joys in anothers loss of ease,\n And builds a Hell in Heavens despite.","title":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Songs of Experience...","type":"page"}