James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902.
August 12William Blake
By Edmund Gosse (18491928)William Blake died August 12, 1827.
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They run who halt on wounded feet;
Art hath its martyrs like the soul,
Its victors in defeat.
He sank, on pinions backward blown;
But, tho’ he touched nor sun nor star,
He made a world his own.