by William Blake (1757 - 1827)
There souls of men are bought and sold
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There souls of men are bought and sold, And milk-fed Infancy for gold; And Youth to slaughter-houses led, And Beauty, for a bit of bread.
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- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), no title, appears in Notebook, in Gnomic Verses, no. 8 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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