by William Blake (1757 - 1827)
To Nobodaddy See original
Language: English
Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclin'd,
Lawless, wing'd & unconfin'd,
And breaks all chains from every mind.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961), "To Nobodaddy", 1983-99, first performed 1999, stanza 1 [ voice and piano ], from Heart of the Stranger, no. 4
Text Authorship:
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), no title, written 1793, appears in Notebook, in Gnomic Verses, no. 7
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-10-16
Line count: 8
Word count: 42