NCERT Book Class 12 English Poetry Poems By Blake

Poems by Blake

I - The Divine Image

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

All pray in their distress;

And to these virtues of delight

Return their thankfulness.

                                             For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

                                             Is God our father dear,

                                             And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love

                                             Is Man, his child and care.

For Mercy has a human heart,

Pity a human face,

And Love, the human form divine,

And Peace, the human dress.

                                              Then every man, of every clime,

                                              That prays in his distress,

                                              Prays to the human form divine,

                                              Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

And all must love the human form,

In heathen, turk, or jew;

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell

There God is dwelling too.

II - The Human Abstract

Pity would be no more

If we did not make somebody Poor;

And Mercy no more could be

If all were as happy as we.

                                                 And mutual fear brings peace,

                                                 Till the selfish loves increase:

                                                 Then Cruelty knits a snare,

                                                 And spreads his baits with care.

He sits down with holy fears,

And waters the ground with tears;

Then Humility takes its root

Underneath his foot.

                                                 Soon spreads the dismal shade

                                                 Of Mystery over his head;

                                                 And the Caterpillar and Fly

                                                 Feed on the Mystery. 

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