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Hand-coloured page of a bearded bard playing a harp before listening youths, with handwritten verse above.

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L object 25 The Voice of the Ancient Bard, William Blake, Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A hand-coloured page shows a bearded bard in a flowing robe playing a large harp while a group of young men and women listens, with one figure kneeling in the foreground. Above the scene is a block of handwritten verse beginning with the words Youth of delight come hither, and the page is numbered 25 in the upper right corner. This is William Blake's print from the copy L of Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

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