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THE BOOK of AHANIA
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LAMBETH Printed by W Blake 1795
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AHANIA
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Chap: Ist
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1: Fuzon, on a chariot iron-wing'd
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On spiked flames rose; his hot visage
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Flam'd furious! sparkles his hair & beard
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Shot down his wide bosom and shoulders.
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On clouds of smoke rages his chariot
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And his right hand burns red in its cloud
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Moulding into a vast globe, his wrath
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As the thunder-stone is moulded.
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Son of Urizens silent burnings
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2: Shall we worship this Demon of smoke,
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Said Fuzon, this abstract non-entity
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This cloudy God seated on waters
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Now seen, now obscur'd; King of sorrow?
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3: So he spoke, in a fiery flame,
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On Urizen frowning indignant,
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The Globe of wrath shaking on high
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Roaring with fury, he threw
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The howling Globe: burning it flew
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Lengthning into a hungry beam. Swiftly
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4: Oppos'd to the exulting flam'd beam
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The broad Disk of Urizen upheav'd
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Across the Void many a mile.
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5: It was forg'd in mills where the winter
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Beats incessant; ten winters the disk
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Unremitting endur'd the cold hammer.
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6: But the strong arm that sent it, remember'd
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The sounding beam; laughing it tore through
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That beaten mass: keeping its direction
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The cold loins of Urizen dividing.
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7: Dire shriek'd his invisible Lust
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Deep groan'd Urizen! stretching his awful hand
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Ahania (so name his parted soul)
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He siez'd on his mountains of jealousy.
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He groand anguishd & called her Sin,
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Kissing her and weeping over her;
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Then hid her in darkness in silence;
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Jealous tho' she was invisible.
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8: She fell down a faint shadow wandring
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In chaos and circling dark Urizen,
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As the moon anguishd circles the earth;
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Hopeless! abhorrd! a death-shadow,
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Unseen, unbodied, unknown,
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The mother of Pestilence.
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9: But the fiery beam of Fuzon
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Was a pillar of fire to Egypt
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Five hundred years wandring on earth
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Till Los siezd it and beat in a mass
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With the body of the sun.
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Chap: II:d
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1: But the forehead of Urizen gathering,
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And his eyes pale with anguish, his lips
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Blue & changing; in tears and bitter
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Contrition he prepar'd his Bow,
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2: Form'd of Ribs: that in his dark solitude
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When obscur'd in his forests fell monsters,
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Arose. For his dire Contemplations
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Rush'd down like floods from his mountains
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In torrents of mud settling thick
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With Eggs of unnatural production
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Forthwith hatching; some howl'd on his hills
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Some in vales; some aloft flew in air
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3: Of these: an enormous dread Serpent
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Scaled and poisonous horned
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Approach'd Urizen even to his knees
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As he sat on his dark rooted Oak.
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4: With his horns he push'd furious.
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Great the conflict & great the jealousy
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In cold poisons: but Urizen smote him
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5: First he poison'd the rocks with his blood
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Then polish'd his ribs, and his sinews
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Dried; laid them apart till winter;
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Then a Bow black prepar'd; on this Bow,
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A poisoned rock plac'd in silence:
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He utter'd these words to the Bow.
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6: O Bow of the clouds of secresy!
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O nerve of that lust form'd monster!
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Send this rock swift, invisible thro'
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The black clouds, on the bosom of Fuzon
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7: So saying, In torment of his wounds,
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He bent the enormous ribs slowly;
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A circle of darkness! then fixed
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The sinew in its rest: then the Rock
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Poisonous source! plac'd with art, lifting difficult
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Its weighty bulk: silent the rock lay.
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8: While Fuzon his tygers unloosing
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Thought Urizen slain by his wrath.
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I am God. said he, eldest of things!
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9: Sudden sings the rock, swift & invisible
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0n Fuzon flew, enter'd his bosom;
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His beautiful visage, his tresses,
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That gave light to the mornings of heaven
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Were smitten with darkness, deform'd
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And outstretch'd on the edge of the forest
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10: But the rock fell upon the Earth,
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Mount Sinai, in Arabia.
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Chap: III:
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1: The Globe shook; and Urizen seated
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On black clouds his sore wound anointed
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The ointment flow'd down on the void
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Mix'd with blood; here the snake gets her poison
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2: With difficulty & great pain; Urizen
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Lifted on high the dead corse:
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On his shoulders he bore it to where
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A Tree hung over the Immensity
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3: For when Urizen shrunk away
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From Eternals, he sat on a rock
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Barren; a rock which himself
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From redounding fancies had petrified
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Many tears fell on the rock,
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Many sparks of vegetation;
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Soon shot the pained root
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Of Mystery, under his heel:
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It grew a thick tree; he wrote
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In silence his book of iron:
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Till the horrid plant bending its boughs
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Grew to roots when it felt the earth
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And again sprung to many a tree.
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4: Amaz'd started Urizen! when
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He beheld himself compassed round
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And high roofed over with trees
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He arose but the stems stood so thick
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He with difficulty and great pain
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Brought his Books, all but the Book
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Of iron, from the dismal shade
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5: The Tree still grows over the Void
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Enrooting itself all around
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An endless labyrinth of woe!
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6: The corse of his first begotten
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On the accursed Tree of MYSTERY:
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On the topmost stem of this Tree
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Urizen nail'd Fuzons corse.
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Chap: IV:
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1: Forth flew the arrows of pestilence
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Round the pale living Corse on the tree
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2: For in Urizens slumbers of abstraction
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In the infinite ages of Eternity:
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When his Nerves of joy melted & flow'd
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A white Lake on the dark blue air
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In perturb'd pain and dismal torment
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Now stretching out, now swift conglobing.
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3: Effluvia vapor'd above
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In noxious clouds; these hover'd thick
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Over the disorganiz'd Immortal,
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Till petrific pain scurfd o'er the Lakes
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As the bones of man, solid & dark
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4: The clouds of disease hover'd wide
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Around the Immortal in torment
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Perching around the hurtling bones
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Disease on disease, shape on shape,
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Winged screaming in blood & torment.
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5: The Eternal Prophet beat on his anvils
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Enrag'd in the desolate darkness
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He forg'd nets of iron around
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And Los threw them around the bones
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6: The shapes screaming flutter'd vain
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Some combin'd into muscles & glands
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Some organs for caving and lust
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Most remain'd on the tormented void:
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Urizens army of horrors.
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7: Round the pale living Corse on the Tree
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Forty years flew the arrows of pestilence
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8: Wailing and terror and woe
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Ran thro' all his dismal world:
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Forty years all his sons & daughters
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Felt their skulls harden; then Asia
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Arose in the pendulous deep.
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9: They reptilize upon the Earth.
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10: Fuzon groand on the Tree.
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Chap: V
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1: The lamenting voice of Ahania
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Weeping upon the void.
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And round the Tree of Fuzon:
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Distant in solitary night
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Her voice was heard, but no form
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Had she: but her tears from clouds
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Eternal fell round the Tree
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2: And the voice cried: Ah Urizen! Love!
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Flower of morning! I weep on the verge
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Of Non-entity; how wide the Abyss
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Between Ahania and thee!
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3: I lie on the verge of the deep.
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I see thy dark clouds ascend,
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I see thy black forests and floods,
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A horrible waste to my eyes!
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4: Weeping I walk over rocks
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Over dens & thro' valleys of death
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Why didst thou despise Ahania
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To cast me from thy bright presence
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Into the World of Loneness
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5: I cannot touch his hand:
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Nor weep on his knees, nor hear
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His voice & bow, nor see his eyes
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And joy, nor hear his footsteps, and
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My heart leap at the lovely sound!
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I cannot kiss the place
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Whereon his bright feet have trod,
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But I wander on the rocks
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With hard necessity.
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6: Where is my golden palace
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Where my ivory bed
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Where the joy of my morning hour
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Where the sons of eternity, singing
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7: To awake bright Urizen my king!
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To arise to the mountain sport,
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To the bliss of eternal valleys:
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8: To awake my king in the morn!
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To embrace Ahanias joy
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On the bredth of his pen bosom:
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From my soft cloud of dew to fall
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In showers of life on his harvests.
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9: When he gave my happy soul
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To the sons of eternal joy:
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When he took the daughters of life.
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Into my chambers of love:
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10: When I found babes of bliss on my beds.
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And bosoms of milk in my chambers
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Fill'd with eternal seed
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O! eternal births sung round Ahania
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In interchange sweet of their joys.
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11: Swell'd with ripeness & fat with fatness
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Bursting on winds my odors,
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My ripe figs and rich pomegranates
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In infant joy at thy feet
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O Urizen, sported and sang;
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12: Then thou with thy lap full of seed
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With thy hand full of generous fire
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Walked forth from the clouds of morning
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On the virgins of springing joy,
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On the human soul to cast
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The seed of eternal science.
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13: The sweat poured down thy temples
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To Ahania return'd in evening
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The moisture awoke to birth
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My mothers-joys, sleeping in bliss.
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14: But now alone over rocks, mountains
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Cast out from thy lovely bosom:
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Cruel jealousy! selfish fear!
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Self-destroying: how can delight,
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Renew in these chains of darkness
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Where bones of beasts are strown
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On the bleak and snowy mountains
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Where bones from the birth are buried
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Before they see the light.
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FINIS
