O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast t…

William Blake
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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car. ✨ William Blake (1953). Selected poetry and prose, Random House Inc
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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car. ✨ William Blake (1953). Selected poetry and prose, Random House Inc

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