“But most, thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot’s curse
Blasts the new born Infant’s tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.”

—  William Blake , London

London, st. 4
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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