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A DIVINE IMAGE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: CRUELTY HAS A HUMAN HEART
Last Line: THE HUMAN HEART, ITS HUNGRY GORGE.
Subject(s): BIBLE; MYTHOLOGY; RELIGION; WAR; THEOLOGY;

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.



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