If you trap the moment before its ripe
1st reading:[1] edit
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If you [catch del.] trap the moment before it's ripe,
The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe;
But if once you let the ripe moment go
You ['ll del.] can never wipe off the tears of woe.
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2nd reading:[2] edit
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If you trap the moment before its ripe
The tears of repentance youll certainly wipe
But if once you let the ripe moment go
You can never wipe off the tears of woe[3]
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- ↑ "Blake Complete Writings", ed. Geoffrey Keynes, pub. OUP 1966/85, p. 179.
- ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 470
- ↑ "If you trap the moment before its ripe..." N 105 rev
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