Blake's manuscript: "Never pain to tell thy love..."

 
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Never pain[3] to tell thy Love
Love that never told can be
For the gentle wind does move
Silently invisibly

5 I told my love I told my love
I told her all my heart
Trembling cold in ghastly fears
Ah she doth depart

Soon as she was gone from me
10 A traveller came by
Silently invisibly
O was no deny[4]

Notes

The first four lines were deleted line by line in the manuscript. However in the most of editions they were restored by the editors.

  1. ↑ W. B. Yeats published it with the title Love's Secret ("Poems of William Blake", George Routlege & Sons Ltd. 1905).
  2. ↑ W. B. Yeats published it with the title Love's Secret ("Poems of William Blake", George Routlege & Sons Ltd. 1905).
  3. ↑ seek (deleted)
  4. ↑ He took her with a sigh (deleted)

This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

 
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