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To William Hayley Esqre, Felpham,
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near Chichester, Sussex
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London. October 7. 1803
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Dear Sir
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Your generous & tender solicitude about your devoted rebel
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makes it absolutely necessary that he should trouble you with an
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account of his safe arrival which will excuse his begging the
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favor of a few lines to inform him how you escaped the contagion
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of the Court of Justice-- I fear that you have & must suffer
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more on my account than I shall ever be worth--Arrived safe in
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London my wife in very poor health still I resolve not to lose.
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hope of seeing better days.
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Art in London flourishes. Engravers in particular are
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wanted. Every Engraver turns away work that he cannot Execute
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from his superabundant Employment. Yet no one brings work to me.
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I am content that it shall be so as long as God pleases I know
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that many works of a lucrative nature are in want of hands other
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Engravers are courted. I suppose that I must go a Courting which
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I shall do awkwardly in the mean time I lose no moment to
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complete Romney to satisfaction
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How is it possible that a Man almost 50 Years of Age who has
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not lost any of his life since he was five years old without
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incessant labour & study. how is it possible that such a one with
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ordinary common sense can be inferior to a boy of twenty who
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scarcely has taken or deigns to take a pencil in hand but who
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rides about the Parks or Saunters about the Playhouses who Eats &
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drinks for business not for need how is it possible that such a
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fop can be superior to the studious lover of Art can scarcely b
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imagind Yet such is somewhat like my fate & such it is likely to
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remain. Yet I laugh & sing for if on Earth neglected I am in
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heaven a Prince among Princes & even on Earth beloved by the Good
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as a Good Man this I should be perfectly contented with but at
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certain periods a blaze of reputation arises round me in which I
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am considerd as one distinguishd by some mental perfection but
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the flame
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soon dies again & I am left stupified & astonishd O that I
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could live as others do in a regular succession of Employment
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this wish I fear is not to be accomplishd to me--Forgive this
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Dirge-like lamentation over a dead horse & now I have lamented
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over the dead horse let me laugh & be merry with my friends till
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Christmas for as Man liveth not by bread alone I shall live altho
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I should want bread--nothing is necessary to me but to do my Duty
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& to rejoice in the exceeding joy that is always poured out on my
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Spirit. to pray that my friends & you above the rest may be made
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partakers of the joy that the world cannot conceive that you may
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still be replenishd with the same & be as you always have been a
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glorious & triumphant Dweller in immortality. Please to pay for
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me my best thanks to Miss Poole tell her that I wish her a
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continued Excess of Happiness--some say that Happiness is not
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Good for Mortals & they ought to be answerd that Sorrow is not
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fit for Immortals & is utterly useless to any one a blight never
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does good to a tree & if a blight kill not a tree but it still
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bear fuit let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the
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blight. When this Soldierlike Danger is over I will do double
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<the> work I do now. for it will hang heavy on my Devil who
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terribly resents it. but I soothe him to peace & indeed he is a
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good naturd Devil after all & certainly does not lead me into
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scrapes. he is not in the least to be blamed for the present
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scrape as he was out of the way all the time on other
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employment seeking amusement in making Verses to which he
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constantly leads me very much to my hurt & sometimes to the
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annoyance of my friends as I percieve he is now doing the same
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work by my letter I will finish it wishing you health & joy in
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God our Saviour
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To Eternity yours
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WILLm BLAKE
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