Show VAGARIES OF fE E J CF GENIUS William Watson's Watsons ons on's Esc p Re Recalls a Peculiar Actions Action cf cr c Other Brilliant Bril Dri- V William Watson's Watsons Vatson's a alleged 1 d yas arle vagaries recall stories of or William Blake make the contemporary of ot Charles Lamb Blake make dined wit with ith h prophets and held converse converse con con- verse with Mith ai char Js A A. A friend 0 of Blake make called on th the poet painter and found him sitting pencil in hand and drawing a portrait with ith all aU the s seeming seem seem- em lug ing anxiety of a n. man wio is conscious o 1 of or having a a fastidious s sitter He looked and drew nd cir drew drOw w and looked yet yel no co living l soul foul was visible Di Dis Disturb Dis- Dis me not n not t said Blake In a a. whisper II I 1 have some one one- to me me Sitting Sitting Sit Sit ting to you ou exclaimed d the iho astonished visitor Where Is he I see no one S But Dut I 1 see him hin him I answered D Blake aka h haughtily There he Is is his name Is Is Lot you may read read lead of him in tho the Scriptures He IVIe In 13 sitting slUing for tor hi his portrait por per trait Blakes Blake's hallucinations however V rarely took teok a malignant nant form torm One of oC his most b b visions was of ot a a V fair fairy 1 was walking alone aone in my gar garden len he sald Them Thel was a a great stillness ss among the branchen branche and a d flowers and nd more more than common sweetness in the air I 1 heard hearda a low lowa a and ld pleasant ant sound V and arid know not whence it came S V At last I saw the 1 broad leaf leat o of a flower move and underneath I saw a n procession of creatures of af lie tho size and color of green and gray gr l grasshoppers bearing a body l laid ld o out t on on a rose roge leaf eaf which h they li j. j buried buried with songs and then dl disappeared It was tras a a fairy's funer funeral V V V V V V V |