“Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joys inclined,
Lawless, winged, and unconfined,
And breaks all chains from every mind.”

Love to Faults
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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