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18 | <h1>William Blake</h1> | |
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92ffc65b | 27 | 5: Till Covet broke his locks & bars.<br /> |
28 | And slept with open doors:<br /> | |
29 | Envy sung at the rich mans feast:<br /> | |
30 | Wrath was follow'd up and down<br /> | |
31 | By a little ewe lamb<br /> | |
32 | And Wantonness on his own true love<br /> | |
33 | Begot a giant race:<br /> | |
34 | <br /> | |
35 | 6: Raging furious the flames of desire<br /> | |
36 | Ran thro' heaven & earth, living flames<br /> | |
37 | Intelligent, organiz'd; arm'd<br /> | |
38 | With destruction & plagues. In the midst<br /> | |
39 | <a href="http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=b-los.a.illbk.03&java=no">The Eternal Prophet</a> bound in a chain<br /> | |
40 | Compell'd to watch Urizens shadow<br /> | |
41 | <br /> | |
42 | 7: Rag'd with curses & sparkles of fury<br /> | |
43 | Round the flames roll as Los hurls his chains<br /> | |
44 | Mounting up from his fury, condens'd<br /> | |
45 | Rolling round & round, mounting on high<br /> | |
46 | Into vacuum: into non-entity.<br /> | |
47 | Where nothing was! dash'd wide apart<br /> | |
48 | His feet stamp the eternal fierce-raging<br /> | |
49 | Rivers of wide flame; they roll round<br /> | |
50 | And round on all sides making their way<br /> | |
51 | Into darkness and shadowy obscurity<br /> | |
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55 | Unwilling I look up to heaven! unwilling count the stars!<br /> | |
56 | Sitting in fathomless abyss of my immortal shrine.<br /> | |
57 | I sieze their burning power<br /> | |
58 | And bring forth howling terrors, all devouring fiery kings.<br /> | |
59 | <br /> | |
60 | Devouring & devoured roaming on dark and desolate mountains<br /> | |
61 | In <a href="http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=europe.b.illbk.04&java=no">forests of eternal death</a>, shrieking in hollow trees.<br /> | |
62 | Ah mother Enitharmon!<br /> | |
63 | Stamp not with solid form this vig'rous progeny of fires.<br /> | |
64 | <br /> | |
65 | I bring forth from my teeming bosom myriads of flames.<br /> | |
66 | And thou dost stamp them with a signet, then they roam abroad<br /> | |
67 | And leave me void as death;<br /> | |
68 | Ah! I am drown'd in shady woe, and visionary joy.<br /> | |
69 | <br /> | |
70 | And who shall bind the infinite with an eternal band?<br /> | |
71 | To compass it with swaddling bands? and who shall cherish it<br /> | |
72 | With milk and honey?<br /> | |
73 | I see it smile & I roll inward & my voice is past.<br /> | |
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77 | For in the depths of Albions bosom in the eastern heaven,<br /> | |
78 | They sound the clarions strong! they chain the howling Captives!<br /> | |
79 | They cast the lots into the helmet; they give the oath of blood in Lambeth<br /> | |
80 | They vote the death of Luvah, & they naild him to Albions Tree in Bath:<br /> | |
81 | They staind him with poisonous blue, they inwove him in cruel roots<br /> | |
82 | To die a death of Six thousand years bound round with vegetation<br /> | |
83 | <a href="http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=jerusalem.e.illbk.65&java=no">The sun was black</a> & the moon rolld a useless globe thro Britain!<br /> | |
84 | </p> | |
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87 | At last when desperation almost tore his heart in twain<br /> | |
88 | He recollected an old Prophecy in Eden recorded,<br /> | |
89 | And often sung to the loud harp at the immortal feasts<br /> | |
90 | That Milton of the Land of Albion should up ascend<br /> | |
91 | Forwards from Ulro from the Vale of Felpham; and set free<br /> | |
92 | Orc from his Chain of Jealousy, he started at the thought<br /> | |
93 | And down descended into Udan-Adan; it was night:<br /> | |
94 | And Satan sat sleeping upon his Couch in Udan Adan:<br /> | |
95 | His Spectre slept, his Shadow woke: when one sleeps th'other wakes<br /> | |
96 | <br /> | |
97 | But Milton entering my Foot: I saw in the nether<br /> | |
98 | Regions of the Imagination; also all men on Earth,<br /> | |
99 | And all in Heaven, saw in the nether regions of the Imagination<br /> | |
100 | In Ulro beneath Beulah, the vast breach of Miltons descent.<br /> | |
101 | But I knew not that it was Milton, for man cannot know<br /> | |
102 | What passes in his members till periods of Space & Time<br /> | |
103 | Reveal the secrets of Etenity: for more extensive<br /> | |
104 | Than any other earthly things, are Mans earthly lineaments.<br /> | |
105 | <br /> | |
106 | And all this <a href="http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=milton.a.illbk.19&java=no">Vegetable World</a> appeard on my left Foot,<br /> | |
107 | As a bright sandal formd immortal of precious stones & gold:<br /> | |
108 | I stooped down & bound it on to walk forward thro' Eternity.<br /> | |
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112 | Ephraim calld out to Zion: Awake O Brother Mountain<br /> | |
113 | Let us refuse the Plow & Spade, the heavy Roller & spiked<br /> | |
114 | Harrow. burn all these Corn fields. throw down all these fences<br /> | |
115 | Fattend on Human blood & drunk with wine of life is better far<br /> | |
116 | Than all these labours of the harvest & the vintage. See the river<br /> | |
117 | Red with the blood of Men. swells lustful round my rocky knees<br /> | |
118 | My clouds are not the clouds of verdant fields & groves of fruit<br /> | |
119 | But Clouds of Human Souls. my nostrils drink the lives of Men<br /> | |
120 | The Villages Lament. they faint outstretchd upon the plain<br /> | |
121 | Wailing runs round the Valleys from the Mill & from the Barn<br /> | |
122 | But most the polishd Palaces dark silent bow with dreadt<br /> | |
123 | Hiding their books & pictures. underneath the dens of Earth<br /> | |
124 | The Cities send to one another saying My sons are Mad<br /> | |
125 | With wine of cruelty. Let us plat a Scourge O Sister City<br /> | |
126 | Children are nourishd for the Slaughter; once the Child was fed<br /> | |
127 | With Milk; but wherefore now are Children fed with blood<br /> | |
128 | The Horse is of more value than the Man. The Tyger fierce<br /> | |
129 | Laughs at the Human form. the Lion mocks & thirsts for blood<br /> | |
130 | They cry O Spider spread thy web! Enlarge thy bones & fill'd<br /> | |
131 | With marrow. sinews & flesh Exalt thyself attain a voice<br /> | |
132 | Call to thy dark armd hosts, for all the sons of Men muster together<br /> | |
133 | To desolate their cities! Man shall be no more! Awake O Hosts<br /> | |
134 | The bow string sang upon the hills! Luvah & Vala ride<br /> | |
135 | Triumphant in the bloody sky. & the Human form is no more<br /> | |
136 | The listning Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back<br /> | |
137 | He cried out to his Father, depart! depart! but sudden Siez'd<br /> | |
138 | And clad in steel. & his Horse proudly neighd; he smelt the battle<br /> | |
139 | Afar off, Rushing back, reddning with rage the Mighty Father<br /> | |
140 | Siezd his bright Sheephook studded with gems & gold, he Swung it round<br /> | |
141 | His head shrill sounding in the sky, down rushd the Sun with noise<br /> | |
142 | Of war, The Mountains fled away they sought a place beneath<br /> | |
143 | Vala remaind in desarts of dark solitude. nor Sun nor Moon<br /> | |
144 | By night nor day to comfort her, she labourd in thick smoke<br /> | |
145 | Tharmas endurd not, he fled howling. then a barren waste sunk<br /> | |
146 | Conglobing in the dark confusion, Mean time Los was born<br /> | |
147 | And Thou O Enitharmon! Hark I hear the hammers of Los<br /> | |
148 | They melt the bones of Vala, & the bones of Luvah into wedges<br /> | |
149 | The innumerable sons & daughters of Luvah closd in furnaces<br /> | |
150 | Melt into furrows. winter blows his bellows: ice & Snow<br /> | |
151 | Tend the dire anvils. Mountains mourn & Rivers faint & fail<br /> | |
152 | There is no City nor Corn-field nor Orchard! all is Rock & Sand<br /> | |
153 | There is no Sun nor Moon nor Star. but rugged wintry rocks<br /> | |
154 | Justling together in the void suspended by inward fires<br /> | |
155 | Impatience now no longer can endure. Distracted Luvah<br /> | |
156 | Bursting forth from the loins of Enitharmon, Thou fierce Terror<br /> | |
157 | Go howl in vain, Smite Smite his fetters Smite O wintry hammers<br /> | |
158 | Smite Spectre of Urthona, mock the fiend who drew us down<br /> | |
159 | From heavens of joy into this Deep. Now rage but rage in vain<br /> | |
160 | Thus Sang the <a href="http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/erdman.xq?id=b2.3#top">Demons of the Deep</a>.<br /></p> | |
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