“The Angel that presided o'er my birth
Said, "Little creature, formed of joy and mirth,
Go love without the help of any thing on earth."”

—  William Blake

The Angel That Presided
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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