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Ah, Sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking after that sweet golden clime, Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my Sunflower wishes to go!

Ah, Sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking after that sweet golden clime, Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my Sunflower wishes to go!
William Blake (identity unresolved)

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William Blake (identity unresolved)
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Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)

Printed page 768 · quotation 14 · William Blake · The Sunflower.

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