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The Sick Rose

The Sick Rose

William Blake

O Rose, thou art sick.
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

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Songs of Experience, 1794.

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