I give you the end of a golden string
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I give you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall.
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I give you the end of a golden string[3]
Only wind it into a ball
It will lead you in at Heavens gate
Built in Jerusalems wall
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Notes
[edit]- ↑ The Poetical Works of William Blake, including the unpublished French Revolution together with the Minor Prophetic Books and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton & Jerusalem; edited with an introduction and textual notes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.
- ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 231.
- ↑ 77:1 give] have given 1st ms rdg del. These 4 lines begin the plate 77, the chapter To the Christians of the poem Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion, where it given in a combination with other 4 lines:
Devils are | I give you the end of a golden string, |
False Religions | Only wind it into a ball: |
"Saul Saul" | It will lead you in at Heavens gate, |
"Why persecutest thou me." | Built in Jerusalems wall. |
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