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THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience)

By William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sieze the fire? nd what shoulder, ! what art" Could twist the sinews of thy heart? nd when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? ! what dread feet? What the hammer? what the #hain? In what furna#e was thy brain? What the an$il? what dread grasp %are its deadly terrors #lasp? When the stars threw down their spears, nd watered hea$en with their tears, %id he smile his work to see? %id he who made the &amb make thee? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye %are frame thy fearful symmetry? '()*

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