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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Shall never be by woman loved.<br />

‘Auguries <strong>of</strong> Innocence’ (c.1803) l. 29<br />

<strong>The</strong> caterpillar on the leaf<br />

Repeats to thee thy mother’s grief<br />

Kill not the moth nor butterfly<br />

For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.<br />

‘Auguries <strong>of</strong> Innocence’ (c.1803) l. 37<br />

A truth that’s told with bad intent<br />

Beats all the lies you can invent<br />

It is right it should be so<br />

Man was made for joy and woe<br />

And when this we rightly know<br />

Thro’ the world we safely go<br />

Joy and woe are woven fine<br />

A clothing for the soul divine.<br />

‘Auguries <strong>of</strong> Innocence’ (c.1803) l. 53<br />

<strong>The</strong> bleat the bark bellow and roar<br />

Are waves that beat on heavens shore.<br />

‘Auguries <strong>of</strong> Innocence’ (c.1803) l. 71<br />

<strong>The</strong> strongest poison ever known<br />

Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.<br />

‘Auguries <strong>of</strong> Innocence’ (c.1803) l. 97<br />

<strong>The</strong> whore and gambler by the State<br />

Licensed build that nation’s fate<br />

<strong>The</strong> harlot’s cry from street to street<br />

Shall weave old England’s winding sheet.<br />

‘Auguries <strong>of</strong> Innocence’ (c.1803) l. 113<br />

God appears and God is Light<br />

To those poor souls who dwell in night<br />

But does a human form display<br />

To those who dwell in realms <strong>of</strong> day.<br />

‘Auguries <strong>of</strong> Innocence’ (c.1803) l. 129<br />

Does the eagle know what is in the pit?<br />

Or wilt thou go ask the mole:<br />

Can wisdom be put in a silver rod?<br />

Or love in a golden bowl?<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Book <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>l’ (1789) plate i ‘<strong>The</strong>l’s Motto’<br />

Everything that lives,<br />

Lives not alone, nor for itself.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Book <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>l’ (1789) plate 3, l. 26

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