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The Sick Rose - Thorn Mix

A Hello Doggo musical setting of William Blake’s “The Sick Rose”.

Tempo: 133 BPM

Music, recording and artwork: CC0 1.0. Source-poem rights are separate: Poem is public domain. Source and provenance.

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Source poem by William Blake

O rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

Poem is public domain.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1826 edition)

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