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

—  William Blake

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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