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EXPERIENCE.
115

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?


For I dance,
And drink, and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.


If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;


Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live
Or if I die.


TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?