“ The Human Form a fiery Forge,
The Human Face a Furnace seal'd,
The Human Heart its hungry Gorge.
⁠I place this poem as appendix to the Songs of Experience in the absence of evidence that it was included in any authentic copy of the Songs issued during Blake's lifetime. Out of fifteen examples of the Songs of Experience
known to me, one only, the uncoloured copy in the Reading Room of the British Museum, contains this plate, and there the watermark of the paper, which is dated 1832, proves that it must have been printed at least five years after Blake's death. ”

“ To tend her by day and by night,
But my Rose turn'd away with jealousy,
And her thorns were my only delight.
The first poem in the MS. Book (on p. 115 reversed) . Without title in the original draft. This and the two following songs are engraved upon a single plate, reprinted in Gilchrist's Life (ii, end) . ”

“ A very similar description of the growth of the Tree is found in Ahania (engr. 1795) , chap, iii, thus condensed by Swinburne (Essay, p. 121) : 'Compare the passage . . . where the growth of it is defined; rooted in the rock of separation, watered with the tears of a jealous God, shot up from sparks and fallen germs of material seed; being after all a growth of mere error, and vegetable (not spiritual) life ”