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Illuminated page with hand-lettered poem The School Boy, watercolor washes, a climbing vine, and three small figures below.

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, 1826 (Library of Congress) object 53 The School Boy, William Blake (1826), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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This illuminated page from William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience shows the poem The School Boy in hand-lettered script over blue and yellow watercolor washes. A twisting vine climbs the right margin with a small figure among its tendrils, and three figures sit in the lower foreground.

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