I say I shan't live for five years

by William Blake

Notebook 62 - I say I shant live five years

1st reading:^[1]

I say I shan't live for five years, And if I live one it will be a Wonder.

June 1793

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2nd reading:^[2]

[Memoranda from the Notebook]

I say I shant live for five years

And if I live one it will be a

Wonder.

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1. "Blake Complete Writings", ed. Geoffrey Keynes, pub. OUP 1966/85, p. 187.
2. "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 694.