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From Notebook c.1808-1811 p.73. See also: Satiric verses and epigrams.

1551959Notebook c.1808-1811 86. Since all the Riches of this WorldWilliam Blake
Blake manuscript - Notebook - page 073

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cxxv

Since all the Riches of this World
May be gifts from the Devil & Earthly Kings,
I should suspect that I worship'd the Devil
If I thank'd my God for worldly things.


MS. Book, p. 73 (reversed) in pencil. All add. follow DGR in printing
as first stanza of xxx ; DGR, WMR and EY with title ' Riches,' WBY with
title ' The Two Kinds of Riches.'
4 my God] WBY omits my.

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The original text:[2]

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Since all the Riches of this World
May be gifts from the Devil & Earthly Kings
I should suspect that I worshipd the Devil
If I thankd my God for Worldly things

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Notes

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  1. ↑ The poetical works of William Blake; a new and verbatim text from the manuscript engraved and letterpress originals; With variorum readings and bibliographical notes and prefaces, edited by Sampson, John, Clarendon Press Oxford 1905, c. 236.
  2. ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 516.

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