Auguries of Innocence (To see a World in a Grain of Sand)
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"Auguries of Innocence" is a poem by William Blake, from a notebook of his known as the Pickering Manuscript. It is assumed to have been written in 1803, but was not published until 1863 in the companion volume to Alexander Gilchrist's biography of Blake. The poem contains a series of paradoxes which speak of innocence juxtaposed with evil and corruption. It consists of 132 lines and has been published with and without breaks dividing it into stanzas. An augury is a sign or omen.
The poem begins:
It continues with a catalogue of moralising couplets, such as:
and:
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- 2023-12-20