“How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring?”

—  William Blake , Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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