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Title: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Author: William Blake

Release Date: December 25, 2008 [eBook #1934]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND SONGS OF
EXPERIENCE***

Transcribed from the 1901 R. Brimley Johnson edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org

[Picture: Image of Blake's original page of The Tyger]

SONGS OF INNOCENCE
AND
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE

BY WILLIAM BLAKE

[Picture: The Astolaf Press, Guildford]

LONDON: R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON.
GUILDFORD: A. C. CURTIS.

MDCCCCI.

CONTENTS

SONGS OF INNOCENCE

Page
Introduction 1
The Shepherd 3
The Echoing Green 4
The Lamb 6
The Little Black Boy 7
The Blossom 9
The Chimney-Sweeper 10
The Little Boy Lost 12
The Little Boy Pound 13
Laughing Song 14
A Cradle Song 15
The Divine Image 17
Holy Thursday 19
Night 20
Spring 23
Nurse's Song 25
Infant Joy 26
A Dream 27
On Another's Sorrow 29

SONGS OF EXPERIENCE

Introduction 33
Earth's Answer 35
The Clod and the Pebble 37
Holy Thursday 38
The Little Girl Lost 39
The