{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/sie/sie39.htm","path":"neu/eng/sie/sie39.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sie/sie39.htm","text":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, [1789-1794]\nPity would be no more,\n If we did not make somebody Poor:\n And Mercy no more could be,\n If all were as happy as we:\nAnd mutual fear brings peace:\n Till the selfish loves increase.\n Then Cruelty knits a snare,\n And spreads his baits with care.\nHe sits down with holy fears,\n And waters the ground with tears:\n Then Humility takes its root\n Underneath his foot.\nSoon spreads the dismal shade\n Of Mystery over his head;\n And the Catterpiller and Fly,\n Feed on the Mystery.\nAnd it bears the fruit of Deceit,\n Ruddy and sweet to eat:\n And the Raven his nest has made\n In its thickest shade.\nThe Gods of the earth and sea,\n Sought thro\u2019 Nature to find this Tree\n But their search was all in vain;\n There grows one in the Human Brain","title":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Songs of Experience...","type":"page"}