What Is The Price Of Experience? Do Men Buy It For A Song?

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What is the price of Experience? Do men
Buy it for a song?! and Wisdom for a
Dance in the Street? No! it is bought with the price
Of all that a man hath: his Wife, his House, his Children--
And Wisdom is sold in the desolate marketplace
Where none come to buy and in the barren fields where
Farmers plow for bread in vain.

-- Blake, The Four Zoas; Night the Second

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