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THE BOOK of LOS
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LAMBETH Printed by W Blake 1795
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LOS
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Chap. I
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1: Eno aged Mother,
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Who the chariot of Leutha guides,
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Since the day of thunders in old time
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2: Sitting beneath the eternal Oak
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Trembled and shook the stedfast Earth
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And thus her speech broke forth.
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3: O Times remote!
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When Love & joy were adoration:
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And none impure were deem'd.
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Not Eyeless Covet
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Nor Thin-lip'd Envy
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Nor Bristled Wrath
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Nor Curled Wantonness
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4: But Covet was poured full:
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Envy fed with fat of lambs:
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Wrath with lions gore:
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Wantonness lulld to sleep
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With the virgins lute,
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Or sated with her love.
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5: Till Covet broke his locks & bars,
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And slept with open doors:
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Envy sung at the rich mans feast:
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Wrath was follow'd up and down
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By a little ewe lamb
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And Wantoness on his own true love
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Begot a giant race:
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6: Raging furious the flames of desire
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Ran thro' heaven & earth, living flames
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Intelligent, organiz'd: arm'd
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With destruction & plagues. In the midst
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The Eternal Prophet bound in a chain
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Compell'd to watch Urizens shadow
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7: Rag'd with curses & sparkles of fury
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Round the flames roll as Los hurls his chains
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Mounting up from his fury, condens'd
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Rolling round & round, mounting on high
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Into vacuum: into non-entity.
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Where nothing was! dash'd wide apart
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His feet stamp the eternal fierce-raging
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Rivers of wide flame; they roll round
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And round on all sides making their way
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Into darkness and shadowy obscurity
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8: Wide apart stood the fires: Los remain'd
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In the void between fire and fire[.]
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In trembling and horror they beheld him
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They stood wide apart, driv'n by his hands
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And his feet which the nether abyss
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Stamp'd in fury and hot indignation
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9: But no light from the fires all was
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Darkness round Los: heat was not; for bound up
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Into fiery spheres from his fur
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The gigantic flames trembled and hid
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10: Coldness, darkness, obstruction, a Solid
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Without fluctuation, hard as adamant
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Black as marble of Egypt; impenetrable
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Bound in the fierce raging Immortal,
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And the seperated fires froze in
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A vast solid without fluctuation,
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Bound in his expanding clear senses
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Chap: II
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1: The Immortal stood frozen amidst
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The vast rock of eternity; times
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And times; a night of vast durance:
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Impatient, stifled, stiffend, hardned.
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2: Till impatience no longer could bear
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The hard bondage, rent: rent, the vast solid
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With a crash from immense to immense
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3: Crack'd across into numberless fragments
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The Prophetic wrath, strug'ling for vent
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Hurls apart, stamping furious to dust
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And crumbling with bursting sobs; heaves
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The black marble on high into fragments
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4: Hurl'd apart on all sides, as a falling
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Rock: the innumerable fragments away
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Fell asunder; and horrible vacuum
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Beneath him & on all sides round.
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5: Falling, falling! Los fell & fell
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Sunk precipitant heavy down down
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Times on times, night on night, day on day
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Truth has bounds. Error none: falling, falling:
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Years on years, and ages on ages
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Still he fell thro' the void, still a void
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Found for falling day & night without end.
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For tho' day or night was not; their spaces
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Were measurd by his incessant whirls
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In the horrid vacuity bottomless.
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6: The Immortal revolving; indignant
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First in wrath threw his limbs, like the babe
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New born into our world: wrath subsided
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And contemplative thoughts first arose
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Then aloft his head rear'd in the Abyss
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And his downward-borne fall. chang'd oblique
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7: Many ages of groans: till there grew
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Branchy forms. organizing the Human
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Into finite inflexible organs.
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8: Till in process from falling he bore
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Sidelong on the purple air, wafting
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The weak breeze in efforts oerwearied
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9: Incessant the falling Mind labour'd
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Organizing itself: till the Vacuum
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Became element, pliant to rise,
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Or to fall, or to swim, or to fly:
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With ease searching the dire vacuity
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Chap: III
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1: The Lungs heave incessant, dull and heavy
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For as yet were all other parts formless
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Shiv'ring: clinging around like a cloud
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Dim & glutinous as the white Polypus
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Driv'n by waves & englob'd on the tide.
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2: And the unformed part crav'd repose
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Sleep began: the Lungs heave on the wave
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Weary overweigh'd, sinking beneath
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In a stifling black fluid he woke
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3: He arose on the waters, but soon
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Heavy falling his organs like roots
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Shooting out from the seed, shot beneath,
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And a vast world of waters around him
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In furious torrents began.
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4: Then he sunk, & around his spent Lungs
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Began intricate pipes that drew in
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The spawn of the waters. Outbranching
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An immense Fibrous form, stretching out
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Thro' the bottoms of immensity raging.
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5: He rose on the floods: then he smote
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The wild deep with his terrible wrath,
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Seperating the heavy and thin.
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6: Down the heavy sunk; cleaving around
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To the fragments of solid: up rose
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The thin, flowing round the fierce fires
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That glow'd furious in the expanse.
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Chap: IV:
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I: Then Light first began; from the fires
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Beams, conducted by fluid so pure .
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Flow'd around the Immense: Los beheld
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Forthwith writhing upon the dark void
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The Back bone of Urizen appear
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Hurtling upon the wind
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Like a serpent! like an iron chain
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Whirling about in the Deep.
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2: Upfolding his Fibres together
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To a Form of impregnable strength
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Los astonish'd and terrified, built
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Furnaces; he formed an Anvil
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A Hammer of adamant then began
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The binding of Urizen day and night
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3: Circling round the dark Demon, with howlings
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Dismay & sharp blightings; the Prophet
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Of Eternity beat on his iron links
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4: And first from those infinite fires
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The light that flow'd down on the winds
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He siez'd; beating incessant, condensing
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The subtil particles in an Orb.
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5: Roaring indignant the bright sparks
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Endur'd the vast Hammer; but unwearied
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Los beat on the Anvil; till glorious
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An immense Orb of fire he fram'd
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6: Oft he quench'd it beneath in the Deeps
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Then surveyd the all bright mass. Again
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Siezing fires from the terrific Orbs
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He heated the round Globe, then beat[,]
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While roaring his Furnaces endur'd
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The chaind Orb in their infinite wombs
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7: Nine ages completed their circles
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When Los heated the glowing mass, casting
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It down into the Deeps: the Deeps fled
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Away in redounding smoke; the Sun
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Stood self-balanc'd. And Los smild with joy.
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He the vast Spine of Urizen siez'd
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And bound down to the glowing illusion
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8: But no light, for the Deep fled away
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On all sides, and left an unform'd
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Dark vacuity: here Urizen lay
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In fierce torments on his glowing bed
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9: Till his Brain in a rock, & his Heart
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In a fleshy slough formed four rivers
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Obscuring the immense Orb of fire
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Flowing down into night: till a Form
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Was completed, a Human Illusion
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In darkness and deep clouds involvd.
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The End of the
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Book of LOS
