Show I VAGARIES RIES OF MEN OF GENIUS William Watsons Watson's Escapade Recalls Peculiar Actions of Other Brilliant Brilliant Bril Bril- Minds William WilHam alleged vagaries rc recall stories of William Blake make U the contemporary of Charles L Lamb Blake dined with prophets and held converse converse con verse with archangels A friend of Blake malee called on the poet painter r and found round him sitting pencil r-encH in hand and I drawing ri a a portrait with all the seem seeming ing lug anxiety of a man who Is conscious cf of having a fastidious sitter He looked and drew and drew and looked yet no living soul was visible Disturb Dis Curb me not sal said Blake In a whisper I I have e 1 some sitting to me Sitting Sitting Sit ting to you u exclaimed the astonished visitor Where i Is he I see no on one But I see him bin him an answered Blake haughtily There be he Is his name Is Lot you may read of him In the Scriptures He is sitting for lp r- r trait Blakes Blake's hallucinations however rarely took a malignant form One of his most b beautiful visions was was was' of a afa fa fairy funeral n 1 was wa walking alone in my garden he be said There Ther e was a 1 great stillness among the branches and nd flowers ow rs and more than common common sweetness In the air all I heard beard he rd a low and pleasant sound and know not whence It At last I l' saw the broad l leaf af of a flower move and underneath I saw a procession of creatures of t the tie size and color coor of green ren and gray grasshoppers bearing a body bOlly laid out on a rose leaf lear which they buried burled with wiO songs and then then disappeared It VMS s as a fairy's fairy funeral |