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And as Beauty’s Word, its Beautiful Living Spirit, descends from the heavens, the Bard grasps the Poetic and Prophetic Spirit of the child’s joyous call to sing the Living Word, to write the Holy Word creating language from the song and silence of the spheres. Moved to joy in innocence’s cheer, moved to grief, in experience’s fear, the Piper, the child steers. And year after year, the Bard’s yearnings for innocence appear. Longing for Eden on Earth, he knows the fallen light he must renew. And rhyming, he harmonizes Beauty’s rhythm, its symmetry 3⁄4 restoring life and earth, beautifying,
“O Earth, O Earth Return!
Arise from out the dewy grass. Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the slumberous mass. 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.”
(Verses 15-20)39
39 Blake, William. The Poetry and Prose of W. Blake. “Songs of Experience.” Introduction. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970.
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