greykit.poetry — #innocence

• 1863 [william-blake] Auguries of Innocence
  The Pickering Manuscript

  Blake's great chain of auguries — 132 lines of compressed vision reading the infinite in the finite: a world in a grain of sand, a heaven in a wildflower, and the tyranny we inflict on the smallest creatures reverberating through all of human life.

  #aphorism#vision#nature#innocence#1800s
• 1789 [william-blake] The Lamb
  Songs of Innocence and of Experience

  A child asks a lamb who made it, then answers the question himself — the same creator who became a little child and bore the name of lamb.

  #lyric#innocence#creation#1780s