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William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908.

On Friends and Foes

[On Stothard]: S——, in childhood, on the nursery floor

XVII
S——, in childhood, on the nursery floor,

Was extreme old and most extremely poor:

He has grown old, and rich, and what he will;

He is extreme old, and extreme poor still.