Song Cycle by Judith Lang Zaimont

?. Elegy: The Garden of Love

Authorship

by William Blake (1757-1827) , "The Garden of Love", from Songs of Innocence and Experience, in Songs of Experience, no. 16, published 1794

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I went to the Garden of Love,
and saw what I never had seen:
A chapel was built in the midst,
where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this chapel were shut,
and "Thou shalt not" writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, 
that so many, many sweet flowers bore;

And I saw it was filled with graves,
and tombstones where flowers should be;
and priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
and binding with briars my joys and desires.

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