The tiger

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

In the forest of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In wath distant deeps or skies

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On wath wings dare he aspire?

What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, and wath art

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And, when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? What the chain?

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? What dread grasp

Dare its deadly terrors claps?

When the stars threw down their spears,

And water'd heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

In the forest of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?