<P> Auguries of Innocence is a poem from one of William Blake's notebooks now known as The Pickering Manuscript . It is assumed to have been written in 1803, but was not published until 1863 in the companion volume to Alexander Gilchrist's biography of William Blake . The poem contains a series of paradoxes which speak of innocence juxtaposed with evil and corruption . The poem is 132 lines and has been published with and without breaks that divide the poem into stanzas . An augury is a sign or omen . </P> <P> Lines from the poem were set to music in 1965 by Benjamin Britten as part of his song cycle Songs and Proverbs of William Blake . </P> <P> Three lines of the poem were included in the 1967 song "End of the Night" by Jim Morrison and The Doors . </P> <P> The Agatha Christie novel "Endless Night" 's title was inspired by this poem . Six lines of the poem were recited in a 1995 film, Dead Man . The lines were recited by the character named Nobody . </P>

To see infinity in a grain of sand