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“He loves to sit and hear me sing,Then, laughing, sports and plays with me;Then stretches out my golden wing,And mocks my loss of liberty.”

— William Blake

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: William Blake
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Context

Song (How Sweet I Roamed), 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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