snowflake6
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Fire, Fire
Fire, Fire, embers bright
In the darkness of the night
What immortal flower or lance
Could capture your glimmering, twisting dance?
In what scalding deeps you lie,
Burning away our inner eye?
On what fuel do you march forth
What do you think our forest’s worth?
And what flames, and what coal
Could bend your noble, noble soul?
And when your spark began to shine,
What dread light? what dread sign?
What the hammer? What the chain,
How many innocents have you slain?
What the dagger? what dread grasp
Dare your fearful enemies clasp?
And when the stars threw down their spears
And tried to kill you with their tears,
Did embers smile their work to see?
Did they who made the ocean make thee?
Fire, Fire, embers bright
In the darkness of the night
What immortal flower or lance
Dare capture your glimmering, twisting dance?
-Ruby
Inspired by William Blake’s Tiger, Tiger
Fire, Fire, embers bright
In the darkness of the night
What immortal flower or lance
Could capture your glimmering, twisting dance?
In what scalding deeps you lie,
Burning away our inner eye?
On what fuel do you march forth
What do you think our forest’s worth?
And what flames, and what coal
Could bend your noble, noble soul?
And when your spark began to shine,
What dread light? what dread sign?
What the hammer? What the chain,
How many innocents have you slain?
What the dagger? what dread grasp
Dare your fearful enemies clasp?
And when the stars threw down their spears
And tried to kill you with their tears,
Did embers smile their work to see?
Did they who made the ocean make thee?
Fire, Fire, embers bright
In the darkness of the night
What immortal flower or lance
Dare capture your glimmering, twisting dance?
-Ruby
Inspired by William Blake’s Tiger, Tiger
