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From Notebook, p. 10. Fragment of prose.

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Notebook 62 - I say I shant live five years

1st reading:[1]

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I say I shan't live for five years, And if I live one it will be a Wonder.

June 1793

2nd reading:[2]

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[Memoranda from the Notebook]

I say I shant live for five years

And if I live one it will be a

Wonder.

  1. ↑ "Blake Complete Writings", ed. Geoffrey Keynes, pub. OUP 1966/85, p. 187.
  2. ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 694.

This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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