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

Gnomic Verses

The sword sung on the barren heath

XIV
THE SWORD sung on the barren heath,

The sickle in the fruitful field:

The sword he sung a song of death,

But could not make the sickle yield.