Show OF KEN fIEN CF OF G GENIUS GEUS JUS William W Escapade R Recalls calls Peculiar Actions cf I. I S Ii ant nt Minds s William Watsons Watson's alleged vagaries alleged recall stoics of William m Blake e th the th-J contemporary or Charles La Lamb Laub Blake dined with h pr prophets and held beld converse con can verse verse with a A A. friend frond of D Blake ake called on the poet painter and found him sitting in hand band and drawing a portrait w with th all the s seeming seem seem- em lug ing anxiety of a l man who is conscious cf of having a fastidious sitter He lie looked coked an anti and drew and drew and looked ed y YI yet yet- i l no living soul was visible Di Dis Disturb mo me not pot said Blake In a whisper I II h have he e some ono sitting 10 n-e. n Sitting Sitting Sitting Sit ting to th tooti you oti exclaimed the astonished visitor Is tor Wh Where l e is he I see no But I see sec him an vred V red mal Blake haughtily There he be is his hs name name- is Lot you ou may react cf ot him in the Scriptures He Ic is sitting fa for his llis por par trait S S Blakes Blake's hallucinations 1 however rarely rarely bl a m malignant nt for r. r One of his most visions was of a fairy funeral f 1 ws was' walking lin m garden he said sa vhs vhs' my Them Thel U a gr great nt stillness g t the e bra branches and flowers and aid more than common sw sweetness tn l In the air dr heard a. a alow alow low and pleasant sound and anc know not pot whence cC it cal cane came c. c J A At t last I saw th the e br broad leaf of a S flower hower m moVe re and underneath I saw a 1 procession ro ess o of creatures of the He size and andl l c olor of cf green n and rl gray grasshoppers s bearing a borly bOlly laid out en on a rose leaf ar which which- they they- buried wi songs songs and thea disappeared Jt It is ts a fairy's funeral S 5 d |