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William Blake · Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Poem 43 of 47 · Book I

A Divine Image

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Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.

The human dress is forgèd iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.

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