Page:Works of William Blake; poetic, symbolic, and critical (1893) Volume 2.djvu/66

52 other till they become a moral tangle impossible to straighten out into any thread of moaning, or weave into any garment for thought. Blake, however, knew what he intended to convey, and in his mind there was no confusion on the subject. By looking into the different expressions and comparing them with others of the same class in his different writings we notice that pride and humility may be tabulated in their good and bad aspects thus:—

The last version of the poem given above hardly overlaps the others in more than a few places, so far as verbal