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SELECTIONS FROM BLAKE'S WRITINGS.

LOVE'S SECRET.

Never seek to tell thy love,
⁠Love that never told can be!
For the gentle wind doth move
⁠Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
⁠I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.
⁠Ah! she did depart.

Soon after she was gone from me
⁠A traveller came by,
Silently, invisibly:
⁠He took her with a sigh.