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Sleep! Sleep! Beauty Bright

By William Blake

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Sleep! sleep! beauty bright,     Dreaming o'er the joys of night;     Sleep! sleep! in thy sleep     Little sorrows sit and weep.     Sweet Babe, in thy face     Soft desires I can trace,     Secret joys and secret smiles,     Little pretty infant wiles.     As thy softest limbs I feel,     Smiles as of the morning steal     O'er thy cheek, and o'er thy breast     Where thy little heart does rest.     O! the cunning wiles that creep     In thy little heart asleep.     When thy little heart does wake     Then the dreadful lightnings break,     From thy cheek and from thy eye,     O'er the youthful harvests nigh.     Infant wiles and infant smiles     Heaven and Earth of peace beguiles.

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About William Blake

William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker who created his own illuminated books. His collections "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" contain poems like "The Tyger" and "London," exploring innocence, oppression, and visionary imagination.

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