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"The Man who does not know The Beginning never can know the End of Art"
(Annotations to Reynolds
Blake's Songs of Innocence (1789) and then Songs of
Innocence and of Experience (1794) present their poems in a variety
of different orders--there is no definitive sequence, though editors have
generally opted for the one that appears in a number of late copies. At
the end of each poem here, you have the option of proceeding to any of
the poems Blake placed after it. You could follow a given edition
throughout, or you can jump around. But first you have to begin, with
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