“The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's winding sheet.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 115
“Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,
An old man in a draughty house
Under a windy knob.”
— T.S. Eliot, book Poems
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
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