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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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