Let the Priests

"Let the Priests" is the fourth song in Bryant's cycle The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, which sets the poetry of William Blake.

Date: 1984Composer: Curtis BryantText: William Blake

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Let the Priests
by William Blake

Let the Priests of the Raven of dawn, no longer in deadly black, with hoarse note curse the sons of joy. Nor his accepted brethren, whom, tyrant, he calls free: lay the bound or build the roof. Nor pale religious letchery call that virginity, that wishes but acts not!

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