never be separated, though our mortal vehicles should stand at the remotest corners of Heaven from each other.
'Farewell, my best friend! Remember me and my wife in love and friendship to our dear Mrs. Flaxman, whom we ardently desire to entertain beneath our thatched roof of rusted gold; and believe me for ever to remain,
'Felpham, Sept. 21st, 1800.
'Sunday morning.'
In a copy of Hayley's 'Triumphs of Temper,' illustrated by Stothard, which had been the one belonging to the Author's son, and which he gave after his death to Blake, are these verses in MS. by the hand of the donor.
'Accept, my gentle visionary, Blake,
Whose thoughts are fanciful and kindly mild;
Accept, and fondly keep for friendship's sake,
This favoured vision, my poetic child.
'Rich in more grace than fancy ever won.
To thy most tender mind this book will be,
For it belonged to my departed son;
So from an angel it descends to thee.
W. H.
'July, 1800.'[1]
Upon his return from Felpham, he addressed the public, in page 3 of his Book of Jerusalem, in these words: 'After my three years' slumber on the
- ↑ I copied the above from the book, now in the possession of Mrs. Blake.
