Mural at Goose Green

Image: © Marathon Taken: 10 Feb 2019

This mural is on a house at the eastern end of Goose Green, East Dulwich. The wording is 'Such were the joys', 'Remember William Blake' and over the archway are the words 'Vision of Angels'. The church is St John the Evangelist on Goose Green. Pam Fray says that the tiger in the bottom right corner refers to Blake's poem "Tyger, tyger burning bright...". The Pelican in the left hand corner refers to the publisher of some renowned editions of Blake's work. The wording between the two parts says "Repainted August 2009 with added Blake poem Echoing Green". The green might well refer to Goose Green and online there is a reference to him as a child in Peckham Rye which is just along the road from Goose Green. Blake was given to having "visions" and Wikipedia states - At the age of eight or ten in Peckham Rye, London, Blake claimed to have seen "a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars". This is a very interesting link: https://dulwichdiverter.tumblr.com/post/153426294274/bespangled-boughs More about William Blake can be seen at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake and about Echoing Green at https://educational-wealth.blogspot.com/2014/04/echoing-green-poem-with-explaination.html

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