{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/sie/sie27.htm","path":"neu/eng/sie/sie27.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sie/sie27.htm","text":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, [1789-1794]\nIs this a holy thing to see,\n In a rich and fruitful land,\n Babes reducd to misery,\n Fed with cold and usurous hand?\nIs that trembling cry a song?\n Can it be a song of joy?\n And so many children poor?\n It is a land of poverty!\nAnd their sun does never shine.\n And their fields are bleak & bare.\n And their ways are fill\u2019d with thorns\n It is eternal winter there.\nFor where-e\u2019er the sun does shine,\n And where-e\u2019er the rain does fall:\n Babe can never hunger there,\n Nor poverty the mind appall.","title":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Songs of Experience...","type":"page"}