How to know Love from Deceit
[How to know Love from Deceit del.]
Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclin'd,
[Always del.] Lawless wing'd, & unconfin'd,
And breaks all chains from every mind
Deceit to secrecy [inclind del.] confin'd,
[Modest prudish & confind del.]
Lawful cautious [word del.] & refind;
[Never is to del.] To every thing but interest blind
[And chains in fetters every mind del.]
And forges fetters for the mind.
________ </poem>
[HOW TO KNOW LOVE FROM DECEIT]
Love to faults is always blind
Always is to joy inclind
[Always] Lawless wingd, & unconfind,
And breaks all chains from every mind
Deceit to secrecy [inclind] confind,
[Modest prudish & confind]
Lawful cautious [changeful and] & refind
[Never is to] To every thing but interest blind
[And chains in fetters every mind]
And forges fetters for the mind
________
[How to know Love from Deceit]
Love to faults is always blind
Always is to joy inclind
Lawless wingd & unconfind
And breaks all chains from every mind
Deceit to secresy confind
Lawful cautious & refind
To every thing but interest blind
And forges fetters for the mind[4]
Wikisource notes
[edit]- ↑ "Blake Complete Writings", ed. Geoffrey Keynes, pub. OUP 1966/85, p. 174.
- ↑ William Blake The Complete Poems", ed. Alicia Ostriker, Penguin Books 1977, p. 147-148.
- ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 472
- ↑ How to know Love from Deceit N 107-106 rev
Blake may only tentatively have considered these two stanzas, written on separate pages, as one poem; he added the title after composition and later deleted it.
3 Lawless] Always 1st rdg del
5 confind] inclind 1st rdg del
6 Lawful … refind] Modest prudish & confind 1st rdg del & refind] 2nd rdg del
7 To every thing but] Never is to 1st rdg del
8 And … mind] And chains & fetters every mind 1st rdg del