The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

William Blake

THE ARGUMENT Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

William Blake

SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE and THE BOOK of THEL SONGS OF INNOCENCE INTRODUCTION Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a ...

William Blake

* * * * * [Illustration: Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thus did Job continually There was a Man in the Land of Uz whose Name was Job.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.