It’s from my favorite poem by William Blake (“The Little Black Boy”).

… surrender her worldly possessions with abiding faith and courage. English Romantic poet and mystic William Blake reminds me, “And we are put on earth a little space, / That we may learn to bear the beams of love.” But those beams of love feel unbearably heavy when loss chips away at their foundation.
Not Anne Bradstreet, Am I: Wrestling with God in the Ashes
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It’s from my favorite poem by William Blake (“The Little Black Boy”). To be honest, the only of his poems that I know.
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