William Blake

“ Salvaging unused lines from the “Infant Sorrow” stanzas of p 111 (see above, p 798) , Blake first wrote down the “O how sick” couplet but then erased it before the ink was dry. He then copied the stanza numbered “1” and then canceled its second couplet, perhaps not before continuing with two more couplets from p 111 on the “bound-ground” rhyme:
To a lovely mirtle bound
Blossoms showring all around
Like to dung upon the ground ”