Note 1. In this section are included all the poems in the Rossetti MS., arranged in the order in which they occur, with the exception of the early versions of some of the Songs of Experience (the variant readings of which are given in footnotes), and the gnomic verses, epigrams, and short satirical pieces which I group together elsewhere. Never seek, &c.] I give here the earlier and incomparably finer version of this song, which Blake subsequently altered by cancelling the first stanza (after changing ‘seek’ to ‘pain’ in l. 1), and substituting
