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 POEMS FROM THE PROPHETIC BOOKS

From

THE BOOK OF THEL Thel's Motto

Thel, f. I. DGR and WMR omit title. 3, 4. These lines occur in a passage in Tiriel of which all but ll. 1, 2 and 4 were deleted by Blake.

4 Cp. note to song from An Island in the Moon, iii, l. 27, and to 'The Golden Net' (Pickering MS.), l. 9. From THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

Prayers plow not: Praises reap not. Joys laugh not: Sorrows weep not. Marriage of Heaven and Hell, f. 9, two last lines. Among the 'Proverbs of Hell,' the rest being in prose. Cp. one of the preceding proverbs, 'As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers.'