William Blake: Redux

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By Christopher Zoukis

The monument is the color of sand. At the base of the monument a green stain grows, the trademark of lichen. Surrounded by a gray cement walkway, the monument stands alone, looking like one half of the twin tablets upon which Moses carried the Ten Commandments.

It stands in north central London, at the corner of City Road and Bunhill Row, a place once known as Dissenters Burial Ground. Today it’s called Bunhill Fields. It’s a cemetery...