{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/sie/sie34.htm","path":"neu/eng/sie/sie34.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sie/sie34.htm","text":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, [1789-1794]\nTyger Tyger, burning bright,\n In the forests of the night;\n What immortal hand or eye,\n Could frame thy fearful symmetry?\nIn what distant deeps or skies,\n Burnt the fire of thine eyes?\n On what wings dare he aspire?\n What the hand, dare sieze the fire?\nAnd what shoulder, & what art,\n Could twist the sinews of thy heart?\n And when thy heart began to beat,\n What dread hand? & what dread feet?\nWhat the hammer? what the chain,\n In what furnace was thy brain?\n What the anvil? what dread grasp,\n Dare its deadly terrors clasp?\nWhen the stars threw down their spears\n And water\u2019d heaven with their tears:\n Did he smile his work to see?\n Did he who made the Lamb make thee?\nTyger Tyger burning bright,\n In the forests of the night:\n What immortal hand or eye,\n Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?","title":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Songs of Experience...","type":"page"}