Songs Of Experience

Introduction

• Hear the voice of the Bard!
• Who Present, Past, & Future sees;
• Whose ears have heard
• The Holy Word
• That walk’d among the ancient trees,
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• Calling the lapsed Soul,
• And weeping in the evening dew;
• That might controll
• The starry pole,
• And fallen, fallen light renew!
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• “O Earth, O Earth, return!
• Arise from out the dewy grass;
• Night is worn,
• And the morn
• Rises from the slumberous mass.
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• “Turn away no more;
• Why wilt thou turn away?
• The starry floor,
• The wat’ry shore,
• Is giv’n thee till the break of day.”