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Though they ask you why you go Though you question, too, yourself, Though they wonder why your foe Rests content in your ill health You find peace, they know not why, While they watch you face the breach You feel joy, though you still cry, As you pray with still soft speech For these tears in sadness wept Water ground that's dry with thirst In the soil this sadness kept Rouses life from what was cursed Then you rise to find full shade From a tree the tears did grow, Turn to offer what God made To the scorched who was your foe And in silence both you sit 'Neath a tree not of your make Mulling stories neither writ Penned divine for both your sake.
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Dec 30, 2025
Dec 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM UTC
Balsam Tree (An Answer to William Blake)
Though they ask you why you go Though you question, too, yourself, Though they wonder why your foe Rests content in your ill health You find peace, they know not why, While they watch you face the breach You feel joy, though you still cry, As you pray with still soft speech For these tears in sadness wept Water ground that's dry with thirst In the soil this sadness kept Rouses life from what was cursed Then you rise to find full shade From a tree the tears did grow, Turn to offer what God made To the scorched who was your foe And in silence both you sit 'Neath a tree not of your make Mulling stories neither writ Penned divine for both your sake.
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Dec 30, 2025
Dec 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM UTC
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