William Blake

“ 1 I rose up at the dawn of day —
'Get thee away! get thee away!
Pray'st thou for Riches? away! away!
This is the Throne of Mammon grey.'
5Said I: ”

“ And Mental Friends, & Mental wealth;
I've a Wife I love, & that loves me;
I've all But Riches Bodily. ”

“ If I pray it must be for other People.
25 He says, if I do not worship him for a God,
I shall eat coarser food, & go worse shod;
So, as I don't value such things as these.
You must do, Mr Devil, just as God please.
MS. Book. p. 89, written immediately under and partly around an entry
dated Aug. 1807. R1 has stanzas 1, 2, 3, the first couplet of 6, then 4 and 7;
Gil. i. 309, 310, prints 1, 2, 3, a fourth stanza formed of the first couplets of
6 and 4, a fifth stanza formed of the second couplet of 4 and the first couplet
of 5, then 7 ; Swinb. p. ”