“Children of the future Age
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime.”

— William Blake

A Little Girl Lost, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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