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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> |