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William Blake – 6 June 2008
William Blake, an English engraver and poet, is best known for two
collections of poems: Songs of Innocence and Songs
of Experience. Many of his visionary poems show his love of
children and animals. Blake, who at the age of fourteen was
apprenticed to an engraver, illustrated and engraved the works of
other poets. He also made beautiful and original illustrations for his
own books, which he printed and published himself.
For today I have chosen this unusual poem:
The Fly
William Blake
(1757 – 1827)
Little Fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brush’d away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance,
And drink, & sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength & breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live
Or if I die.
For a collection of poems and stories, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/poetrydir.html
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"Joyful Curmudgeon"
An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful. At the
same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the
world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true
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