A flower was offer’d to me

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For works with similar titles, see My Pretty Rose Tree.
Notebook 1. A flower was offer’d to me
by William Blake

From Notebook, p. 115, reversed. First draft of My Pretty Rose Tree in Songs of Experience (1794).

1542897Notebook 1. A flower was offer’d to meWilliam Blake

Blake's manuscript: "A flower was offerd to me..."

(Edited text)

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A flower was offered to me,
Such a flower as may never bore;
But I said, "I've a pretty rose tree,"
And I passed the sweet flower o'er.

Then I went to my pretty rose tree,[2]
To tend it by day and by night;
But my rose[3] turn'd away with Jealousy,
And her thorns were my only delight.

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Notes

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  1. "Blake Complete Writings", ed. Geoffrey Keynes, pub. OUP 1966/85, p. 161.
  2. [In the silent of the night del.]
  3. [was turned from me del.] [was fill'd del.]

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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