If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe… — William Blake
If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.
1792
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Blake, William. "If you trap the moment before its ripe." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.