1961
No. 7. A Divine Image
Composed by
Frank Lewin
Frank Lewin Text by
William Blake
William Blake Innocence and Experience Song Collection
"A Divine Image" is the sixth song and seventh movement in Frank Lewin's song cycle Innocence and Experience, which sets seven texts of William Blake with two instrumental interludes.
Text
A Divine Image
by William Blake
Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face,
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.
The human dress is forgèd iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace seal’d,
The human heart its hungry gorge.
Audio
“No. 7. A Divine Image” (from “Innocence and Experience”)
Helen Boatwright (soprano) & Keith Wilson (conductor)1:03
