...iron, my moon a clod of clay, My sun a pestilence burning at noon, a vapour of death in the night. What is the price of experience ? Do men buy it for...song ? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bonght | with the price / '•. Of all that a man hath,t-his wife, his house, his children. 400 Wisdom...

...' What is the price of experience ? Do men buy it for a song, Or wisdom for a dance in the street 1 No, it is bought with the price Of all that a man...children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none comes to buy, And in the withered fields where the farmer ploughs for bread in vain.' Nature is still...

...frankly biblical, and suggests the book of Proverbs, as thus : ' What is the price of experience1! Do men buy it for a song, Or wisdom for a dance in the street 1 No, it is bought with the price Of all that a man hath — his wife, his house, his children. Wisdom...

...because of our submission to this hypnotic tyranny that the real fruits of education are forgotten — " Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come...fields where the farmer ploughs for bread in vain." t Even religion, to judge by the dry bones of its history, tells the same tale. Has she not, in the...

...iron, my moon a clod of clay, My sun a pestilence burning at noon, and a vapour of death in night. 10 What is the price of Experience ? Do men buy it for...bought with the price Of all that a man hath — his house, his wife, his children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy, And in...

...iron, my moon a clod of clay, My sun a pestilence burning at noon, and a vapour of death in night. What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for...bought with the price Of all that a man hath, — his house, his wife, his children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy, And in...

...in the second Night, where Enion wails forth a cry that seems Blake's own : THE PRICE OF EXPERIENCE What is the price of Experience ? Do men buy it for...bought with the price Of all that a man hath — his house, his wife, his children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate rnarketwherje ngnjT1come''tO Buy; And...

...some parts of the poem the manner is frankly biblical, and suggests the book of Proverbs, as thus : " What is the price of experience ? Do men buy it for...children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none comes to buy, And in the withered fields where the farmer ploughs for bread in vain." Nature is Still...

...hold in regard to Lear's new sympathy with "houseless heads" and "unfed sides." Blake too found that: Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy, And in the wither'd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain. Like Lear Blake had been stretched out "upon...

...can, hard-won truths. His powerful lines, ' prophetic ' in the deepest sense, express this devotion : What is the price of Experience ? do men buy it for...bought with the price Of all that a man hath — his house, his wife, his children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy, And in...