The Clod And The Pebble

30 Oct The Clod And The Pebble

The Clod and the Pebble 

Songs of Innocence and of Experience – copy L object 40 The CLOD & the PEBBLE – held by yale center for British art

    by William Blake

“Love seeketh not itself to please, 

Nor for itself hath any care,

But for another gives its ease,

And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair”.

So sung a little Clod of Clay,

Trodden with the cattle’s feet

But a Pebble of the brook

Warbled out these metres meet:

“Love seeketh only itself to please,

To bind another to its delight,

Joys in another’s loss of ease,

And builds a Hell in Heaven’s despite”.

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