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William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908.

Miscellaneous Epigrams

On the virginity of the Virgin Mary and Johanna Southcott

XII
WHATE’ER is done to her she cannot know,

And if you’ll ask her she will swear it so.

Whether ’tis good or evil none’s to blame:

No one can take the pride, no one the shame.