{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/sie/sie43.htm","path":"neu/eng/sie/sie43.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sie/sie43.htm","text":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, [1789-1794]\nChildren of the future Age,\n Reading this indignant page;\n Know that in a former time,\n Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime.\nIn the Age of Gold,\n Free from winters cold:\n Youth and maiden bright,\n To the holy light,\n Naked in the sunny beams delight.\nOnce a youthful pair\n Fill\u2019d with softest care:\n Met in garden bright,\n Where the holy light,\n Had just removd the curtains of the night.\nThere in rising day,\n On the grass they play:\n Parents were afar:\n Strangers came not near:\n And the maiden soon forgot her fear.\nTired with kisses sweet\n They agree to meet,\n When the silent sleep\n Waves o\u2019er heavens deep;\n And the weary tired wanderers weep.\nTo her father white\n Came the maiden bright:\n But his loving look,\n Like the holy book,\n All her tender limbs with terror shook.\nOna! pale and weak!\n To thy father speak:\n O the trembling fear!\n O the dismal care!\n That shakes the blossoms of my hoary hair","title":"Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Songs of Experience...","type":"page"}