| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau | | By William Blake (1757–1827) |
| | | MOCK on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; | |
| Mock on, mock on; ’tis all in vain! | |
| You throw the sand against the wind, | |
| And the wind blows it back again. | |
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| And every sand becomes a gem | 5 |
| Reflected in the beams divine; | |
| Blown back they blind the mocking eye, | |
| But still in Israel’s paths they shine. | |
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| The atoms of Democritus | |
| And Newton’s particles of light | 10 |
| Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, | |
| Where Israel’s tents do shine so bright. | | | | |
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