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from reason’s dread, SE’s winged child is carried trusting reason’s head. So whereto does Blake lead the way?
Of SII’s wingless little child, innocent and sublime, there is no winged-need to reach the divine eye or the blossom sky. Heaven’s realm is his: he belongs to it; embodies it. He, a nebular apparition, pure, beyond the reach of experience’s impurity, unbound, commands and flees away in glee 3⁄4 free, beyond all irony. And to his wondrous desires the marveled Shepherd Piper, a naturalist, abides, in innocence’s charm, bliss. He pipes, sings and writes intuitively far-off from thought’s airy skies, recollecting, “with a rural pen,” his happy songs about a Lamb “every child may joy to hear.”
If the child’s romantic beauty dwells in his buoyant compelling joy, the Piper’s beauty resides in the immediacy of instinct, of trust to recollect and lead him to the Wondrous Way. And the Piper, faithfully leaping to his demands, discovers, via the Wondrous Way of pure Poiesis, his own very sentimental beauty, his very own creative spirit, as he, being called to pipe, sing and write, begins to create in deep inner listening, the Mytho-Divine world conjugating self, nature and the heavens in the Lamb’s song.
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