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William Blake · Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Poem 28 of 47 · Book I

The Sick Rose

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O rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

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