<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Auguries of Innocence </Td> </Tr> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: the Pickering Manuscript </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: the Pickering Manuscript </Td> </Tr> <P> Auguries of Innocence is a poem from one of William Blake's notebooks now known as The Pickering Manuscript . It is assumed to have been written in 1803, but was not published until 1863 in the companion volume to Alexander Gilchrist's biography of William Blake . The poem contains a series of paradoxes which speak of innocence juxtaposed with evil and corruption . The poem is 132 lines and has been published with and without breaks that divide the poem into stanzas . An augury is a sign or omen . </P>

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