Ten Blake Songs

Ten Blake Songs is a song cycle composed in 1958 by Ralph Vaughan Williams for tenor voice and oboe, for the film The Vision of William Blake.^[1] It comprises the following songs, all but the last being drawn from Songs of Innocence and of Experience by the English poet and visionary William Blake (1757–1827); that last having been taken from the same poet's Auguries of Innocence:

1. "Infant Joy" (Innocence)
2. "A Poison Tree" (Experience)
3. "The Piper" (Innocence, titled "Introduction")
4. "London" (Experience)
5. "The Lamb" (Innocence)
6. "The Shepherd" (Innocence)
7. "Ah! Sun-flower" (Experience)
8. "Cruelty Has a Human Heart" (Experience)
9. "The Divine Image" (Innocence)
10. "Eternity" (Auguries, closing words)

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