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William Blake read by Maryse Philippe D​é​jean, from the Penguin Poets' William Blake - 'The Tyger', William Blake, read by Maryse Philippe D​é​jean

from School Everywhere! Lagniappe for Lessons in Songs & Poems by John Sinclair, Cole Williams, William Blake, Johann Goethe, Maryse Philippe Déjean, Don Paul

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Like the other 'Lagnaippe for Lessons' William Blake's 'The Tyger', read by Maryse Philippe Déjean, is meant to serve as an enhancement to learning by first-year students in the Modules of French, Haitian Kréyol, English and Spanish that make up the 25-wees-long course of SCHOOL EVERYWHERE!

SCHOOL EVERYWHERE! is led by educator Marie-Marthe Balin Franck Paul in Haiti. SCHOOL EVEFRYWHERE! is bringing the capacities for universal literacy to Haiti through Lessons and Modules from Madame Paul's textook, Mon Livre Unique, a textbook printed in 110,000 copies for first-year students across Haiti.

More about SCHOOL EVERYWHERE! can be found at www.stickingupforchildren.com/school-everywhere
The page for 'The Tyger' gives more about William Blake the radical profundity of his visionary art in poetry and images.

Maryse Philippe Déjean is co-direcrtor with her husband Don Paul of the Sticking Up For Children effort brought to them by Cyril and Gaynielle Neville in 2013. The page is www.stickingupforchildren.com/the-tyger

lyrics

'THE TYGER'

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 
In the forests of the night; 
What immortal hand or eye, 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies. 
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & 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 clasp! 

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?

Tyger Tyger burning bright, 
In the forests of the night: 
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

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from School Everywhere! Lagniappe for Lessons in Songs & Poems, released August 12, 2020

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