“For washed in life's river,
My bright mane forever
Shall shine like the gold
As Iguard o'er the fold.”
William Blake Songs of Innocence
Night, st. 6
Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.”
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