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The Garden Of Love

By William Blake

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I laid me down upon a bank,     Where Love lay sleeping;     I heard among the rushes dank     Weeping, weeping.     Then I went to the heath and the wild,     To the thistles and thorns of the waste;     And they told me how they were beguiled,     Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.     I went to the Garden of Love,     And saw what I never had seen;     A Chapel was built in the midst,     Where I used to play on the green.     And the gates of this Chapel were shut     And "Thou shalt not," writ over the door;     So I turned to the Garden of Love     That so many sweet flowers bore.     And I saw it was filled with graves,     And tombstones where flowers should be;     And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,     And binding with briars my joys and desires.

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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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