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L23.1Butts11'02; E720| [To Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802]
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| Dear Sir
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| After I had finishd my Letter I found that I had not said
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| half what I intended to say & in particular I wish to ask you
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| what subject you choose to be painted on the remaining Canvas
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| which I brought down with me (for there were three) and to tell
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| you that several of the Drawings were in great forwardness you
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| will see by the Inclosed Account that the remaining Number of
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| Drawings which you gave me orders for is Eighteen I will finish
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| these with all possible Expedition if indeed I have not tired you
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| or as it is politely calld Bored you too much already or if you
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| would rather cry out Enough Off Off! tell me in a Letter of
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| forgiveness if you were offended & of accustomd friendship if you
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| were not. But I will bore you more with some Verses which My
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| Wife desires me to Copy out & send you with her kind love &
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| Respect they were Composed <above> a twelvemonth ago [in
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| a] <while> Walk<ing> from Felpham to Lavant to meet my
L23.1Butts11'02; E720| Sister
L23.verse1Butts11'02; E720| With happiness stretchd across the hills
L23.verse2Butts11'02; E720| In a cloud that dewy sweetness distills
L23.verse3Butts11'02; E720| With a blue sky spread over with wings
L23.verse4Butts11'02; E720| And a mild sun that mounts & sings
L23.verse5Butts11'02; E720| With trees & fields full of Fairy elves
L23.verse6Butts11'02; E720| And little devils who fight for themselves
L23.verse7Butts11'02; E720| Remembring the Verses that Hayley sung t1532
L23.verse8Butts11'02; E721| When my heart knockd against the root of my tongue
L23.verse9Butts11'02; E721| With Angels planted in Hawthorn bowers
L23.verse10Butts11'02; E721| And God himself in the passing hours
L23.verse11Butts11'02; E721| With Silver Angels across my way
L23.verse12Butts11'02; E721| And Golden Demos that none can stay
L23.verse13Butts11'02; E721| With my Father hovering upon the wind
L23.verse14Butts11'02; E721| And my Brother Robert just behind
L23.verse15Butts11'02; E721| And my Brother John the evil one
L23.verse16Butts11'02; E721| In a black cloud making his mone
L23.verse17Butts11'02; E721| Tho dead they appear upon my path
L23.verse18Butts11'02; E721| Notwithstanding my terrible wrath
L23.verse19Butts11'02; E721| They beg they intreat they drop their tears
L23.verse20Butts11'02; E721| Filld full of hopes filld full of fears
L23.verse21Butts11'02; E721| With a thousand Angels upon the Wind
L23.verse22Butts11'02; E721| Pouring disconsolate from behind
L23.verse23Butts11'02; E721| To drive them off & before my way
L23.verse24Butts11'02; E721| A frowning Thistle implores my stay
L23.verse25Butts11'02; E721| What to others a trifle appears
L23.verse26Butts11'02; E721| Fills me full of smiles or tears
L23.verse27Butts11'02; E721| For double the vision my Eyes do see
L23.verse28Butts11'02; E721| And a double vision is always with me
L23.verse29Butts11'02; E721| With my inward Eye 'tis an old Man grey
L23.verse30Butts11'02; E721| With my outward a Thistle across my way
L23.verse31Butts11'02; E721| "If thou goest back the thistle said
L23.verse32Butts11'02; E721| Thou art to endless woe betrayd
L23.verse33Butts11'02; E721| For here does Theotormon lower
L23.verse34Butts11'02; E721| And here is Enitharmons bower
L23.verse35Butts11'02; E721| And Los the terrible thus hath sworn
L23.verse36Butts11'02; E721| Because thou backward dost return
L23.verse37Butts11'02; E721| Poverty Envy old age & fear
L23.verse38Butts11'02; E721| Shall bring thy Wife upon a bier
L23.verse39Butts11'02; E721| And Butts shall give what Fuseli gave
L23.verse40Butts11'02; E721| A dark black Rock & a gloomy Cave."
L23.verse41Butts11'02; E721| I struck the Thistle with my foot
L23.verse42Butts11'02; E721| And broke him up from his delving root
L23.verse43Butts11'02; E721| "Must the duties of life each other cross"
L23.verse44Butts11'02; E721| "Must every joy be dung & dross"
L23.verse45Butts11'02; E721| "Must my dear Butts feel cold neglect"
L23.verse46Butts11'02; E721| "Because I give Hayley his due respect'
L23.verse47Butts11'02; E721| "Must Flaxman look upon me as wild"
L23.verse48Butts11'02; E721| "And all my friends be with doubts beguild'
L23.verse49Butts11'02; E721| "Must my Wife live in my Sisters bane"
L23.verse50Butts11'02; E721| "Or my sister survive on my Loves pain'
L23.verse51Butts11'02; E721| "The curses of Los the terrible shade"
L23.verse52Butts11'02; E721| "And his dismal terrors make me afraid"
L23.verse53Butts11'02; E722| So I spoke & struck in my wrath
L23.verse54Butts11'02; E722| The old man weltering upon my path
L23.verse55Butts11'02; E722| Then Los appeard in all his power
L23.verse56Butts11'02; E722| In the Sun he appeard descending before
L23.verse57Butts11'02; E722| My face in fierce flames in my double sight
L23.verse58Butts11'02; E722| Twas outward a Sun: inward Los in his might
L23.verse59Butts11'02; E722| "My hands are labourd day & night"
L23.verse60Butts11'02; E722| "And Ease comes never in my sight"
L23.verse61Butts11'02; E722| "My Wife has no indulgence given"
L23.verse62Butts11'02; E722| "Except what comes to her from heaven"
L23.verse63Butts11'02; E722| "We eat little we drink less"
L23.verse64Butts11'02; E722| "This Earth breeds not our happiness"
L23.verse65Butts11'02; E722| "Another Sun feeds our lifes streams"
L23.verse66Butts11'02; E722| "We are not warmed with thy beams"
L23.verse67Butts11'02; E722| "Thou measurest not the Time to me"
L23.verse68Butts11'02; E722| "Nor yet the Space that I do see"
L23.verse69Butts11'02; E722| "My Mind is not with thy light arrayd"
L23.verse70Butts11'02; E722| "Thy terrors shall not make me afraid"
L23.verse71Butts11'02; E722| When I had my Defiance given
L23.verse72Butts11'02; E722| The Sun stood trembling in heaven
L23.verse73Butts11'02; E722| The Moon that glowd remote below
L23.verse74Butts11'02; E722| Became leprous & white as snow
L23.verse75Butts11'02; E722| And every Soul of men on the Earth
L23.verse76Butts11'02; E722| Felt affliction & sorrow & sickness & dearth
L23.verse77Butts11'02; E722| Los flamd in my path & the Sun was hot
L23.verse78Butts11'02; E722| With the bows of my Mind & the Arrows of Thought
L23.verse79Butts11'02; E722| My bowstring fierce with Ardour breathes
L23.verse80Butts11'02; E722| My arrows glow in their golden sheaves
L23.verse81Butts11'02; E722| My brothers & father march before
L23.verse82Butts11'02; E722| The heavens drop with human gore
L23.verse83Butts11'02; E722| Now I a fourfold vision see
L23.verse84Butts11'02; E722| And a fourfold vision is given to me
L23.verse85Butts11'02; E722| Tis fourfold in my supreme delight
L23.verse86Butts11'02; E722| And three fold in soft Beulahs night
L23.verse87Butts11'02; E722| And twofold Always. May God us keep
L23.verse88Butts11'02; E722| From Single vision & Newtons sleep
L23.2Butts11'02; E723| I also inclose you some Ballads by Mr Hayley with prints to
L23.2Butts11'02; E723| them by Your Hble. Servt. I should have sent them before now but
L23.2Butts11'02; E723| could not get any thing done for You to please myself for I do
L23.2Butts11'02; E723| assure you that I have truly studied the two little pictures I
L23.2Butts11'02; E723| now send & do not repent of the time I have spent upon them
L23.3Butts11'02; E723| God bless you
L23.3Butts11'02; E723| Yours
L23.3Butts11'02; E723| W B
L23.3Butts11'02; E723| P. S. I have taken the liberty to trouble you with a
L23.3Butts11'02; E723| letter to my Brother which you will be so kind as to send or give
L23.3Butts11'02; E723| him & oblige yours W B