...Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. 866 BLAKE, WORDSWORTH, AND COLERIDGE Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. Here the conclusion makes explicit the moral, as happens more than once in these poems: For Mercy has...

...transcendent force of 'Pity', which is at their centre, is also central in Songs of Innocence: 'Then like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song', 'Then cherish pity; lest you drive an angel from your door.' Here, at the end of 'London', their evocation...

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...of song Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heavn among Beneath them sit the revrend men the guardians of the poor Then cherish pity lest you drive an angel from your door After this recital the Islanders sit "silent for a quarter of an hour" — not, as some will have it,...

...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. Una prima stesura di questa poesia si trova nel romanzo burlesco di Blake, An Island in the Moon (1784-85)....

...transcendent force of 'Pity', which is at their centre, is also central in Songs of Innocence: 'Then like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song'. 'Then cherish pity; lest you drive an angel from your door.' Here, at the end of 'London', their evocation...

...there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice...Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.17 The second, in Songs of Experience (1794), reflects a very different reaction: Is this a holy...

...was there but multitudes of lambs Thousands of little boys &. girls raising their innocent hands Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice...cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door The sun descending in the west The evening star does shine. The birds are silent in their nest, And 1 must...

...there, but multitudes of lambs: Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to Heaven the voice...harmonious thunderings the seats of Heaven among. i Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor. Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel...

...there, but multitudes of lambs Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song, 10 Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among; Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians...