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We are led to believe a lie, when we see not through the eye, which was born in a night to perish in a night, when the soul slept in beams of light.

Source:Auguries of Innocence (1803)
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  • Name: William Blake
  • Profession: Poet
  • Born: November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827
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