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Me Time has crook'd; no good workman
Is he. Infirm is all that he does...<ref>A literal translation of this epigram, ascribed to Crates of Thebes, is: 'Time has bent me; though a skilled craftsman, yet he makes all things weaker.'

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Me Time has Crook'd. no good Workman
Is he. Infirm is all that he does

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Notes

↑ "Blake Complete Writings", ed. Geoffrey Keynes, pub. OUP 1966/85, p. 555.
↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 502.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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[1] "Blake Complete Writings", ed. Geoffrey Keynes, pub. OUP 1966/85, p. 555.

[2] "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 502.

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