QuoteQuest“And we are put on earth a little space,That we may learn to bear the beams of love,And these black bodies and this sunburnt faceIs but a cloud, and like a shady grove.”
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AttributedRecorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: William Blake
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
The Little Black Boy, st. 4
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Blake, William. (n.d.). Wikiquote: William Blake. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Blake
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