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

Selections from ‘Jerusalem’

[The Remembrance of Sin]

COME, O thou Lamb of God, and take away the remembrance of Sin!

To sin, and to hide the Sin in sweet deceit, is lovely:

To sin in the open face of day is cruel and pitiless; but

To record the Sin for a reproach, to let the Sun go down

In a remembrance of the Sin, is a woe and a horror,

A brooder of an Evil Day, and a Sun rising in blood.

Come then, O Lamb of God, and take away the remembrance of Sin!