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"I assert for myself that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance, and not action I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it."

The angel who presided at my birth Said: Little creature, formed of joy and mirth. Go, love without the help of anything on earth."

the publication of these volumes I knew but one of Blake's poems, that on the Human Form, or Divine Image, quoted by James John Garth Wilkinson in his great work. The wisdom and the celestial simplicity of this little piece prepared one to love the author and all that he had done; yet the selections from his poems and other writings were a revelation