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[To] Mr Butts, Grr Marlborough Street
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Felpham April 25: 1803
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My Dear Sir
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I write in haste having recievd a pressing Letter from my
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Brother. I intended to have sent the Picture of the Riposo which
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is nearly finishd much to my satisfaction but not quite you shall
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have it soon. I now send the 4 Numbers for Mr Birch with best
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Respects to him <The Reason the Ballads have been suspended is
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the pressure of other business but they will go on again soon>
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Accept of my thanks for your kind & heartening Letter You
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have Faith in the Endeavours of Me your weak brother & fellow
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Disciple. how great must be your faith in our Divine Master. You
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are to me a Lesson of Humility while you Exalt me by such
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distinguishing commendations. I know that you see certain merits
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in me which by Gods Grace shall be made fully apparent & perfect
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in Eternity. in the mean time I must not bury the Talents in the
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Earth but do my endeavour to live to the Glory of our Lord &
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Saviour & I am also grateful to the kind hand that endeavours to
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lift me out of despondency even if it lifts me too high--
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And now My Dear Sir Congratulate me on my return to London
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with the full approbation of Mr Hayley & with Promise--But
Alas!
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Now I may say to you what perhaps I shoud not dare to say
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to any one else. That I can alone carry on my visionary studies
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in London unannoyd & that I may converse with my friends in
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Eternity. See Visions, Dream Dreams, & prophecy & speak Parables
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unobserv'd & at liberty from the Doubts of other Mortals. perhaps
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Doubts proceeding from Kindness. but Doubts are always pernicious
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Especially when we Doubt our Friends Christ is very decided on
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this Point. "He who is Not With Me is Against Me" There is no
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Medium or Middle state & if a Man is the Enemy of my Spiritual
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Life while he pretends to be the Friend of my Corporeal. he is a
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Real Enemy--but the Man may be the friend of my Spiritual Life
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while he seems the Enemy of my Corporeal but Not Vice Versa
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What is very pleasant. Every one who hears of my going to
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London again Applauds it as the only course for the interest of
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all concernd in My Works. Observing that I ought not to be away
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from the opportunities London affords of seeing fine Pictures and
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the various improvements in Works of Art going on in London
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But none can know the Spiritual Acts of my three years
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Slumber on the banks of the Ocean unless he has seen them in the
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Spirit or unless he should read My long Poem descriptive of those
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Acts for I have in these three years composed an immense number
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of verses on One Grand Theme Similar to Homers Iliad or Miltons
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Paradise Lost the Person & Machinery intirely new to the
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Inhabitants of Earth (some of the Persons Excepted) I have
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written
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this Poem from immediate Dictation twelve or sometimes twenty or
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thirty lines at a time without Premeditation & even against my
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Will. the Time it has taken in writing was thus renderd Non
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Existent. & an immense Poem Exists which seems to be the Labour
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of a long Life all producd without Labour or Study. I mention
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this to shew you what I think the Grand Reason of my being
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brought down here
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I have a thousand & ten thousand things to say to you. My
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heart is full of futurity. I percieve that the sore travel which
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has been given me these three years leads to Glory & Honour. I
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rejoice & I tremble "I am fearfully & wonderfully made". I had
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been reading the cxxxix Psalm a little before your Letter
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arrived. I take your advice. I see the face of my Heavenly
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Father he lays his Hand upon my Head & gives a blessing to all my
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works why should I be troubled why should my heart & flesh cry
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out. I will go on in the Strength of the Lord through Hell will
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I sing forth his Praises. that the Dragons of the Deep may praise
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him & that those who dwell in darkness & on the Sea coasts may
be
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gatherd into his Kingdom. Excuse my perhaps too great
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Enthusiasm. Please to accept of & give our Loves to Mrs
Butts &
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your amiable Family. & believe me to be----
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Ever Yours Affectionately
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WILL. BLAKE.
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