Taken on August 8, 2011
… Sleep, sleep, happy child,
All creation slept and smil’d;
Sleep, sleep, happy sleep,
While o’er thee thy mother weep.
Sweet babe, in thy face
Holy image I can trace.
Sweet babe, once like thee,
Thy maker lay and wept for me, …
—William Blake
Romantic English Writers
edited by David Perkins
08.08.2023: Reading anything by William Blake after reading Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia is a slightly disturbing practice.