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Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930).  The Spirit of Man: An Anthology.  1916.
 
Opportunity

William Blake (1757–1827)
 
HE 1 who bends to himself a joy
Does the wingéd life destroy:
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise …
 
Note 1. Blake. Opportunity, in ‘Ideas of Good and Evil’. First stanza of two. [back]
 
 
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