The Angel that presided oer my birth
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Edited text:[1] edit
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THE ANGEL that presided o’er my birth
Said ‘Little creature, form’d[2] of joy and mirth,
Go, love without the help of anything on earth.’
The original text:[3] edit
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The Angel that presided oer my birth
Said Little creature formd of Joy & Mirth
Go love without the help of any King on Earth
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Notes edit
- ↑ The Poetical Works of William Blake, including the unpublished French Revolution together with the Minor Prophetic Books and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton & Jerusalem; edited with an introduction and textual notes by John Sampson, Hon. D.Litt. Oxon., 1862–1931. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1908.
- ↑ form’d … mirth] thou art form’d for mirth MS. 1st rdg. del.
- ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 502.
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