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The poem is found in the Notebook, or also known as "the Rossetti Manuscript". I believe the last four stanzas were in the notebook, which Blake wrote for himself--and not for publication, and when the works were being reviewed, someone decided that the stanzas were related to "My Spectre around me night & day".
I have seen the last two lines quoted often: "The Woman that does not love your frowns will never embrace your smiles."
dallas holsten from United States