She invites Thel to enter into her underground realm and see the dark prison of the dead where Thel herself will one day reside. However, Thel is assailed by mysterious voices asking a whole series of yet more terrible questions about existence.
The tale of Thel, the virgin shepherdess interviewing a cloud, a lily, a worm, and a clod of clay about the transience of life, is the first of Blake's poems written in lines of fourteen syllables, which became his primary meter thereafter.
Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud, Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face. Ah! gentle may I lay me down and gentle rest my head. Of him that walketh in the garden in the evening time. Saying, rejoice thou humble grass, thou new-born lily flower. To flourish in eternal vales: they why should Thel complain.
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