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An Ode To William Blake

An Ode To William Blake ---------------------------------- He when Painted, Printed or Wrote, His face always wore a grave grin. THAT Soft in heart and hand, The sculptor, stones had ever seen; Sitting by the lonely- lake’s shore Portrayed the playing cherubs. For me his shop would have been, For Pope, Dryden’s coffee shop. Loved who little- boys, herders and sheep, And praised country and for lambs prayed. An artist lived there unknown, Unnoticed, ahead of his time. (contd...)

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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