All eternity is here, today

Here's today's entry from the pictured 2001 compilation - the opening verses of 'Auguries of Innocence' by William Blake ...

... the whole poem (128 lines in full) is a manifesto of eco-philosophy which was some 200-years ahead of its time - quite remarkable really:


from Auguries of Innocence

To see a World in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.

A Robin Red breast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A Dove house filled with Doves & Pigeons
Shudders Hell through all its regions,
A dog starved at his Masters Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misused 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.

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William Blake (1757 – 1827)

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