To see a world in a grain of sandAnd a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
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The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.
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But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the dayIn sighing and dismay.
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How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?
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I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gateBuilt in Jerusalem's wall.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me weak or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my lifeIf I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book [, with Edwin Ellis, 1893], nor would [stage play, 1892] have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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