I laid me down upon a bank
by William Blake (1757–1827) English
(The original text)
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I laid me down upon a bank
Where love lay sleeping
I heard among the rushes dank
Weeping Weeping
5Then I went to the heath & the wild
To the thistles & thorns of the waste
And they told me how they were beguild
Driven out & compeld to be chaste
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