A Divine Image

"A Divine Image" is a poem by William Blake from Songs of Experience, not to be confused with "The Divine Image" from Songs of Innocence. The poem only appeared in copy BB of the combined Songs of Innocence and of Experience. [1]

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Ralph Vaughan Williams set the poem to music in his 1958 song cycle Ten Blake Songs, under the title "Cruelty Has a Human Heart".

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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 forged Iron
The Human Form, a fiery Forge.
The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd
The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge.[2]

gollark: I have never seriously tried it. It was too boring to continue for a substantial amount of time.
gollark: The optical properties of water probably come from how its bonds are arranged or something like that, and you can hardly change that or the underlying electromagnetism things without breaking all life.
gollark: I don't think you can easily get rid of rainbows and nothing else with a patch to physics which doesn't just special-case some particular scenario though.
gollark: Oh dear.
gollark: I'm not sure how much of the water was there initially versus produced via ??? chemistry later.

References
  1. "Songs of Innocence and of Experience". William Blake Archive. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  2. Blake, William (1988). Erdman, David V. (ed.). The Complete Poetry and Prose (Newly revised ed.). Anchor Books. p. 32. ISBN 0385152132.
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