605. The Garden of Love by William Blake
b"William Blake read by Classic Poetry Aloud\\n\\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\\nTwitter: @classicpoetry\\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/poetryaloud\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n-----------------------------------------------\\n\\nThe Garden of Love\\nby William Blake (1757 \\u2013 1827)\\n\\nI went to the Garden of Love,\\nAnd saw what I never had seen;\\nA Chapel was built in the midst,\\nWhere I used to play on the green.\\n\\nAnd the gates of this Chapel were shut,\\nAnd 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;\\nSo I turned to the Garden of Love\\nThat so many sweet flowers bore.\\n\\nAnd I saw it was filled with graves,\\nAnd tombstones where flowers should be;\\nAnd priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,\\nAnd binding with briars my joys and desires.\\n\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud, 2008."