Delicate Hands & Heads will never appear

by William Blake

Blake manuscript - Notebook - page 046

Edited text:^[1]

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‘Delicate Hands & Heads will never appear
While Titian &c— as in the Book of Moonlight, p. 5.’^[2]
 

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The original text:^[3]

 
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Delicate Hands & Heads will never appear
While Titians &c as in the Book of Moonlight p 5

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Notes

1. The Poetical Works of William Blake, including the unpublished French Revolution together with the Minor Prophetic Books and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton & Jerusalem; edited with an introduction and textual notes by John Sampson, Hon. D.Litt. Oxon., 1862–1931. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1908.
2. Of the Book of Moonlight nothing is known beyond the entry on p. 46 of the MS. Book.
3. "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 514.