William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 27, "To the Jews" 1) lines 9-12
“I read his awful name, emblazon'd high
With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky.”
Poems (1773), "An Address to the Deity", p. 128.
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