The Cripple every Step Drudges & labours
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THE CRIPPLE every step drudges and labours,
And says: ‘Come, learn to walk of me, good neighbours.’
Sir Joshua in astonishment cries out:
‘See, what great labour! pain in modest doubt![2]
5‘He walks and stumbles as if he crep,
And how high labour’d is every step!’
Newton and Bacon cry ‘Being badly nurst,
He is all experiments from last to first.’
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The Cripple every Step Drudges & labours
And says come learn to walk of me Good Neighbours
Sir Joshua in astonishment cries out
See what Great Labour Pain him & Modest Doubt
5 Newton & Bacon cry being badly Nurst.
He is all Experiments from last to first
He walks & stumbles as if he crep
And how high labourd is every step
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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- ↑ The Poetical Works of William Blake, including the unpublished French Revolution together with the Minor Prophetic Books and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton & Jerusalem; edited with an introduction and textual notes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.
- ↑ 4 His pains are more than others, there ’s no doubt MS. 1st rdg. del.
- ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 502.
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