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William Blake · Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Poem 34 of 47 · Book I

The Lily

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The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble sheep a threat’ning horn:
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

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