| 1 | <verse> |
| 2 | 5: Till Covet broke his locks & bars. |
| 3 | And slept with open doors: |
| 4 | Envy sung at the rich mans feast: |
| 5 | Wrath was follow'd up and down |
| 6 | By a little ewe lamb |
| 7 | And Wantonness on his own true love |
| 8 | Begot a giant race: |
| 9 | |
| 10 | 6: Raging furious the flames of desire |
| 11 | Ran thro' heaven & earth, living flames |
| 12 | Intelligent, organiz'd; arm'd |
| 13 | With destruction & plagues. In the midst |
| 14 | [[http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=b-los.a.illbk.03&java=no][The Eternal Prophet]] bound in a chain |
| 15 | Compell'd to watch Urizens shadow |
| 16 | |
| 17 | 7: Rag'd with curses & sparkles of fury |
| 18 | Round the flames roll as Los hurls his chains |
| 19 | Mounting up from his fury, condens'd |
| 20 | Rolling round & round, mounting on high |
| 21 | Into vacuum: into non-entity. |
| 22 | Where nothing was! dash'd wide apart |
| 23 | His feet stamp the eternal fierce-raging |
| 24 | Rivers of wide flame; they roll round |
| 25 | And round on all sides making their way |
| 26 | Into darkness and shadowy obscurity |
| 27 | </verse> |
| 28 | |
| 29 | <verse> |
| 30 | Unwilling I look up to heaven! unwilling count the stars! |
| 31 | Sitting in fathomless abyss of my immortal shrine. |
| 32 | I sieze their burning power |
| 33 | And bring forth howling terrors, all devouring fiery kings. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | Devouring & devoured roaming on dark and desolate mountains |
| 36 | In [[http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=europe.b.illbk.04&java=no][forests of eternal death]], shrieking in hollow trees. |
| 37 | Ah mother Enitharmon! |
| 38 | Stamp not with solid form this vig'rous progeny of fires. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | I bring forth from my teeming bosom myriads of flames. |
| 41 | And thou dost stamp them with a signet, then they roam abroad |
| 42 | And leave me void as death; |
| 43 | Ah! I am drown'd in shady woe, and visionary joy. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | And who shall bind the infinite with an eternal band? |
| 46 | To compass it with swaddling bands? and who shall cherish it |
| 47 | With milk and honey? |
| 48 | I see it smile & I roll inward & my voice is past. |
| 49 | </verse> |
| 50 | |
| 51 | <verse> |
| 52 | For in the depths of Albions bosom in the eastern heaven, |
| 53 | They sound the clarions strong! they chain the howling Captives! |
| 54 | They cast the lots into the helmet; they give the oath of blood in Lambeth |
| 55 | They vote the death of Luvah, & they naild him to Albions Tree in Bath: |
| 56 | They staind him with poisonous blue, they inwove him in cruel roots |
| 57 | To die a death of Six thousand years bound round with vegetation |
| 58 | [[http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=jerusalem.e.illbk.65&java=no][The sun was black]] & the moon rolld a useless globe thro Britain! |
| 59 | </verse> |
| 60 | |
| 61 | <verse> |
| 62 | At last when desperation almost tore his heart in twain |
| 63 | He recollected an old Prophecy in Eden recorded, |
| 64 | And often sung to the loud harp at the immortal feasts |
| 65 | That Milton of the Land of Albion should up ascend |
| 66 | Forwards from Ulro from the Vale of Felpham; and set free |
| 67 | Orc from his Chain of Jealousy, he started at the thought |
| 68 | And down descended into Udan-Adan; it was night: |
| 69 | And Satan sat sleeping upon his Couch in Udan Adan: |
| 70 | His Spectre slept, his Shadow woke: when one sleeps th'other wakes |
| 71 | |
| 72 | But Milton entering my Foot: I saw in the nether |
| 73 | Regions of the Imagination; also all men on Earth, |
| 74 | And all in Heaven, saw in the nether regions of the Imagination |
| 75 | In Ulro beneath Beulah, the vast breach of Miltons descent. |
| 76 | But I knew not that it was Milton, for man cannot know |
| 77 | What passes in his members till periods of Space & Time |
| 78 | Reveal the secrets of Etenity: for more extensive |
| 79 | Than any other earthly things, are Mans earthly lineaments. |
| 80 | |
| 81 | And all this [[http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=milton.a.illbk.19&java=no][Vegetable World]] appeard on my left Foot, |
| 82 | As a bright sandal formd immortal of precious stones & gold: |
| 83 | I stooped down & bound it on to walk forward thro' Eternity. |
| 84 | </verse> |
| 85 | |
| 86 | <verse> |
| 87 | Ephraim calld out to Zion: Awake O Brother Mountain |
| 88 | Let us refuse the Plow & Spade, the heavy Roller & spiked |
| 89 | Harrow. burn all these Corn fields. throw down all these fences |
| 90 | Fattend on Human blood & drunk with wine of life is better far |
| 91 | Than all these labours of the harvest & the vintage. See the river |
| 92 | Red with the blood of Men. swells lustful round my rocky knees |
| 93 | My clouds are not the clouds of verdant fields & groves of fruit |
| 94 | But Clouds of Human Souls. my nostrils drink the lives of Men |
| 95 | The Villages Lament. they faint outstretchd upon the plain |
| 96 | Wailing runs round the Valleys from the Mill & from the Barn |
| 97 | But most the polishd Palaces dark silent bow with dreadt |
| 98 | Hiding their books & pictures. underneath the dens of Earth |
| 99 | The Cities send to one another saying My sons are Mad |
| 100 | With wine of cruelty. Let us plat a Scourge O Sister City |
| 101 | Children are nourishd for the Slaughter; once the Child was fed |
| 102 | With Milk; but wherefore now are Children fed with blood |
| 103 | The Horse is of more value than the Man. The Tyger fierce |
| 104 | Laughs at the Human form. the Lion mocks & thirsts for blood |
| 105 | They cry O Spider spread thy web! Enlarge thy bones & fill'd |
| 106 | With marrow. sinews & flesh Exalt thyself attain a voice |
| 107 | Call to thy dark armd hosts, for all the sons of Men muster together |
| 108 | To desolate their cities! Man shall be no more! Awake O Hosts |
| 109 | The bow string sang upon the hills! Luvah & Vala ride |
| 110 | Triumphant in the bloody sky. & the Human form is no more |
| 111 | The listning Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back |
| 112 | He cried out to his Father, depart! depart! but sudden Siez'd |
| 113 | And clad in steel. & his Horse proudly neighd; he smelt the battle |
| 114 | Afar off, Rushing back, reddning with rage the Mighty Father |
| 115 | Siezd his bright Sheephook studded with gems & gold, he Swung it round |
| 116 | His head shrill sounding in the sky, down rushd the Sun with noise |
| 117 | Of war, The Mountains fled away they sought a place beneath |
| 118 | Vala remaind in desarts of dark solitude. nor Sun nor Moon |
| 119 | By night nor day to comfort her, she labourd in thick smoke |
| 120 | Tharmas endurd not, he fled howling. then a barren waste sunk |
| 121 | Conglobing in the dark confusion, Mean time Los was born |
| 122 | And Thou O Enitharmon! Hark I hear the hammers of Los |
| 123 | They melt the bones of Vala, & the bones of Luvah into wedges |
| 124 | The innumerable sons & daughters of Luvah closd in furnaces |
| 125 | Melt into furrows. winter blows his bellows: ice & Snow |
| 126 | Tend the dire anvils. Mountains mourn & Rivers faint & fail |
| 127 | There is no City nor Corn-field nor Orchard! all is Rock & Sand |
| 128 | There is no Sun nor Moon nor Star. but rugged wintry rocks |
| 129 | Justling together in the void suspended by inward fires |
| 130 | Impatience now no longer can endure. Distracted Luvah |
| 131 | Bursting forth from the loins of Enitharmon, Thou fierce Terror |
| 132 | Go howl in vain, Smite Smite his fetters Smite O wintry hammers |
| 133 | Smite Spectre of Urthona, mock the fiend who drew us down |
| 134 | From heavens of joy into this Deep. Now rage but rage in vain |
| 135 | Thus Sang the [[http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/erdman.xq?id=b2.3#top][Demons of the Deep]]. |
| 136 | </verse> |