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SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE.
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long country in which Blake and his young wife spent so many hou

The last verse only brings in the symbolic use of the seasons.

The concltuhig poem, "To Tirzah," suddenly enters on new ground, and the name of a personage of the myth is added to general explanatory allusions. The song may be looked on as an abbreviated form of all the Prophetic Books. Experience and sense the female of mind have closed in the true intellect, until it seems as though man had a body distinct from his mind. But Imagination enters the dark region, Jesus dies, and the chain is broken.


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