“My specter around me night and day
Like a wild beast guards my way,
My emanation far within
Weeps incessantly for my sin.”

—  William Blake

My Specter, st. 1
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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