William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
The Sword Sung
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
“And in his hand a sickle he did holde,
To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.”
Canto 7, stanza 30
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book VII
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