GREATEST HITS 8

INTRODUCTION 

Song and Ballads, Blake's Notebook, (E 489) 

"The iron hand crushd the Tyrants head 
And became a Tyrant in his stead"  

British Museum

Ink and Watercolor Drawing 

Whore of Babylon 

Phrase in context:  

Song and Ballads, Blake's Notebook, (E 489) 
The Grey Monk
..."But vain the Sword & vain the Bow 
They never can work Wars overthrow
The Hermits Prayer & the Widows tear
Alone can free the World from fear

For a Tear is an Intellectual Thing       
And a Sigh is the Sword of an Angel King 
And the bitter groan of the Martyrs woe    
Is an Arrow from the Almighties Bow

The hand of Vengeance found the Bed        
To which the Purple Tyrant fled
The iron hand crushd the Tyrants head 
And became a Tyrant in his stead"

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