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Notebook c.1808-1811 21. To S——d ("You all your youth observed the Golden Rule...")
by William Blake
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From Notebook c.1808-1811 p.30. See also: Satiric verses and epigrams.

1546461Notebook c.1808-1811 21. To S——d ("You all your youth observed the Golden Rule...")William Blake
Blake manuscript - Notebook 1808 - 22 To Stothard

Edited text:[1]

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You all your Youth observed the Golden Rule[2]
Till[3] you're at last become the golden Fool.
I sport with Fortune, Merry, Blithe & Gay,
Like to the Lion Sporting with his Prey.
5 Take you the hide & horns which you may wear:[4]
Mine is the flesh the bones may be[5] your Share.

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The original text:[6]

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You all your Youth observed the Golden Rule
Till youre at last become the golden Fool
I sport with Fortune Merry Blithe & Gay
Like to the Lion Sporting with his Prey
5 Take you the hide & horns which you may wear
Mine is the flesh the bones may be your Share

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Notes

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  1. ↑ "Blake Complete Writings", ed. Geoffrey Keynes, pub. OUP 1966/85, p. 540.
  2. ↑ [He del.] You all [his del.] your Youth observed the Golden Rule
  3. ↑ [he's del.]
  4. ↑ [He has del.] Take you the hide & horns which [he may wear del.] [thou maist del.] you may wear:
  5. ↑ [thy del.]
  6. ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 508.

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