“Each outcry of the hunted Hare/ A fibre from the Brain does tear.”

A Horse misusd upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fibre from the Brain does tear
A Skylark wounded in the wing
A Cherubim does cease to sing
The Game Cock clipd & armd for fight
Does the Rising Sun affright.

— excerpt from William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence”

 

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