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AnnWWExcur; E666| Annotations to Wordsworth's Preface toThe Excursion,
AnnWWExcur; E666| being a portion of The Recluse, A Poe t1493
AnnWWExcur; E666| London, 1814
EDAnnWWExcur; E666| Blake's notes are in the margins and at the end of a
EDAnnWWExcur; E666| four-page transcript he made in 1826 of the last paragraph of
EDAnnWWExcur; E666| Wordsworth's Preface and the 107 lines there quoted "from the
EDAnnWWExcur; E666| Conclusion of the first Book of the Recluse".
EDAnnWWExcur; E666| We quote here, from Blake's transcript, only the lines of
EDAnnWWExcur; E666| The Recluse upon which he made comment.
EDAnnWWExcur; E666| [LINES 31-35]
TXTWWExcur; E666| All strength, all terror, single or in bands
TXTWWExcur; E666| That ever was put forth in personal Form
TXTWWExcur; E666| Jehovah--with his thunder & the choir
TXTWWExcur; E666| Of shouting Angels & the empyreal thrones--
TXTWWExcur; E666| I pass them unalarmd. . . .
TXTWWExcur; E666| [Blake, at end of ms]
AnnWWExcur; E666| Solomon when he Married Pharohs daughter & became a Convert
AnnWWExcur; E666| to the Heathen Mythology Talked exactly in this way of Jehovah as
AnnWWExcur; E666| a Very inferior object of Mans Contemplations he also passed him
AnnWWExcur; E666| by unalarmd & was permitted. Jehovah dropped a tear & followd
AnnWWExcur; E666| him by his Spirit into the Abstract void it is called the Divine
AnnWWExcur; E666| Mercy Satan dwells in it but Mercy does not dwell in him he knows
AnnWWExcur; E666| not to Forgive
AnnWWExcur; E666| W Blake
TXTWWExcur; E666| [LINES 63-68]
TXTWWExcur; E666| How exquisitely the individual Mind
TXTWWExcur; E666| (And the progressive powers perhaps no less
TXTWWExcur; E666| (Of the whole species) to the external World
TXTWWExcur; E666| Is fitted.---& how exquisitely too, *
TXTWWExcur; E667| Theme this but little heard of among Men
TXTWWExcur; E667| The external World is fitted to the Mind.
AnnWWExcur; E667| You shall not bring me down to believe such fitting & fitted
AnnWWExcur; E667| I know better & Please your Lordship
TXTWWExcur; E667| [LINES 71-82]
TXTWWExcur; E667| --Such grateful haunts forgoing. if I oft
TXTWWExcur; E667| Must turn elsewhere--to travel near the tribes
TXTWWExcur; E667| And fellowships of men, and see ill sights
TXTWWExcur; E667| Of madding passions mutually inflamd
TXTWWExcur; E667| Must hearHumanity infields and groves **
TXTWWExcur; E667| Pipe solitary anguishor must hang
TXTWWExcur; E667| Brooding above the fierce confederate storm
TXTWWExcur; E667| Of Sorrow barricadoed evermore
TXTWWExcur; E667| Within the walls of cities; may these sounds
TXTWWExcur; E667| Have their authentic comment--that even these
TXTWWExcur; E667| Hearing I be not downcast nor forlorn
AnnWWExcur; E667| does not this Fit & is it not Fitting most Exquisitely too
AnnWWExcur; E667| but to what not to Mind but to the Vile Body only & to its Laws
AnnWWExcur; E667| of Good & Evil & its Enmities against Mind