"For Mercy has a human heart;Pity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine:And Peace the human dress.Songs of InnocenceCruelty has a human heartAn...
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
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"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
"Vision is the end of religion.
"A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.
"I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this...
"I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this...
"Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
"When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
"The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not ...
"But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
"For every thing that lives is Holy.
"The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought t...
"The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil...