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EUROPE a PROPHECY
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LAMBETH Printed by Will: Blake: 1794
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Five windows light the cavern'd Man; thro' one he breathes the air;
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Thro' one, hears music of the spheres; thro' one, the eternal vine
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Flourishes, that he may recieve the grapes; thro' one can look.
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And see small portions of the eternal world that ever groweth;
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Thro' one, himself pass out what time he please, but he will not;
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For stolen joys are sweet, & bread eaten in secret pleasant.
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So sang a Fairy mocking as he sat on a streak'd Tulip,
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Thinking none saw him: when he ceas'd I started from the trees!
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And caught him in my hat as boys knock down a butterfly.
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How know you this said I small Sir? where did you learn this song?
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Seeing himself in my possession thus he answered me:
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My master, I am yours. command me, for I must obey.
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Then tell me, what is the material world, and is it dead?
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He laughing answer'd: I will write a book on leaves of flowers,
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If you will feed me on love-thoughts, & give me now and then
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A cup of sparkling poetic fancies; so when I am tipsie,
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I'll sing to you to this soft lute; and shew you all alive
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The world, when every particle of dust breathes forth its joy.
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I took him home in my warm bosom: as we went along
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Wild flowers I gatherd; & he shew'd me each eternal flower:
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He laugh'd aloud to see them whimper because they were pluck'd.
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They hover'd round me like a cloud of incense: when I came
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Into my parlour and sat down, and took my pen to write:
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My Fairy sat upon the table, and dictated EUROPE.
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PRELUDIUM
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The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc:
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Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon;
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And thus her voice arose.
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O mother Enitharmon wilt thou bring forth other sons?
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To cause my name to vanish, that my place may not be found.
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For I am faint with travel! t185
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Like the dark cloud disburdend in the day of dismal thunder.
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My roots are brandish'd in the heavens. my fruits in earth beneath
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Surge, foam, and labour into life, first born & first consum'd!
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Consumed and consuming!
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Then why shouldst thou accursed mother bring me into life?
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I wrap my turban of thick clouds around my lab'ring head;
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And fold the sheety waters as a mantle round my limbs.
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Yet the red sun and moon,
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And all the overflowing stars rain down prolific pains.
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Unwilling I look up to heaven! unwilling count the stars!
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Sitting in fathomless abyss of my immortal shrine.
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I sieze their burning power
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And bring forth howling terrors, all devouring fiery kings.
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Devouring & devoured roaming on dark and desolate mountains
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In forests of eternal death, shrieking in hollow trees.
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Ah mother Enitharmon!
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Stamp not with solid form this vig'rous progeny of fires.
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I bring forth from my teeming bosom myriads of flames.
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And thou dost stamp them with a signet, then they roam abroad
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And leave me void as death:
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Ah! I am drown'd in shady woe, and visionary joy.
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And who shall bind the infinite with an eternal band?
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To compass it with swaddling bands? and who shall cherish it
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With milk and honey?
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I see it smile & I roll inward & my voice is past.
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She ceast & rolld her shady clouds
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Into the secret place.
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A PROPHECY
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The deep of winter came;
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What time the secret child,
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Descended thro' the orient gates of the eternal day:
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War ceas'd, & all the troops like shadows fled to their abodes.
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Then Enitharmon saw her sons & daughters rise around.
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Like pearly clouds they meet together in the crystal house:
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And Los, possessor of the moon, joy'd in the peaceful night:
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Thus speaking while his num'rous sons shook their bright fiery wings
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Again the night is come t186
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That strong Urthona takes his rest,
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And Urizen unloos'd from chains
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Glows like a meteor in the distant north
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Stretch forth your hands and strike the elemental strings!
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Awake the thunders of the deep.
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The shrill winds wake
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Till all the sons of Urizen look out and envy Los:
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Sieze all the spirits of life and bind
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Their warbling joys to our loud strings
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Bind all the nourishing sweets of earth
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To give us bliss, that we may drink the sparkling wine of Los
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And let us laugh at war,
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Despising toil and care,
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Because the days and nights of joy, in lucky hours renew.
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Arise O Orc from thy deep den,
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First born of Enitharmon rise!
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And we will crown thy head with garlands of the ruddy vine;
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For now thou art bound;
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And I may see thee in the hour of bliss, my eldest born.
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The horrent Demon rose, surrounded with red stars of fire,
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Whirling about in furious circles round the immortal fiend.
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Then Enitharmon down descended into his red light,
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And thus her voice rose to her children, the distant heavens reply.
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Now comes the night of Enitharmons joy!
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Who shall I call? Who shall I send?
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That Woman, lovely Woman! may have dominion?
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Arise O Rintrah thee I call! & Palamabron thee!
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Go! tell the human race that Womans love is Sin!
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That an Eternal life awaits the worms of sixty winters
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In an allegorical abode where existence hath never come:
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Forbid all joy, & from her childhood shall the little female
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Spread nets in every secret path.
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My weary eyelids draw towards the evening, my bliss is yet but new.
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Arise O Rintrah eldest born: second to none but Orc:
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O lion Rintrah raise thy fury from thy forests black:
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Bring Palamabron horned priest, skipping upon the mountains:
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And silent Elynittria the silver bowed queen:
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Rintrah where hast thou hid thy bride!
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Weeps she in desart shades?
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Alas my Rintrah! bring the lovely jealous Ocalythron.
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Arise my son! bring all thy brethren O thou king of fire.
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Prince of the sun I see thee with thy innumerable race:
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Thick as the summer stars:
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But each ramping his golden mane shakes,
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And thine eyes rejoice because of strength O Rintrah furious king.
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Enitharmon slept,
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Eighteen hundred years: Man was a Dream!
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The night of Nature and their harps unstrung:
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She slept in middle of her nightly song,
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Eighteen hundred years, a female dream!
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Shadows of men in fleeting bands upon the winds: t187
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Divide the heavens of Europe:
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Till Albions Angel smitten with his own plagues fled with his bands
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The cloud bears hard on Albions shore:
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Fill'd with immortal demons of futurity:
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In council gather the smitten Angels of Albion
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The cloud bears hard upon the council house; down rushing
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On the heads of Albions Angels.
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One hour they lay buried beneath the ruins of that hall;
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But as the stars rise from the salt lake they arise in pain,
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In troubled mists o'erclouded by the terrors of strugling times.
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In thoughts perturb'd, they rose from the bright ruins silent following
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The fiery King, who sought his ancient temple serpent-form'd
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That stretches out its shady length along the Island white.
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Round him roll'd his clouds of war; silent the Angel went,
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Along the infinite shores of Thames to golden Verulam.
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There stand the venerable porches that high-towering rear
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Their oak-surrounded pillars, form'd of massy stones, uncut
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With tool; stones precious; such eternal in the heavens,
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Of colours twelve, few known on earth, give light in the opake,
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Plac'd in the order of the stars, when the five senses whelm'd
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In deluge o'er the earth-born man; then turn'd the fluxile eyes
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Into two stationary orbs, concentrating all things.
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The ever-varying spiral ascents to the heavens of heavens
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Were bended downward; and the nostrils golden gates shut
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Turn'd outward, barr'd and petrify'd against the infinite.
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Thought chang'd the infinite to a serpent; that which pitieth:
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To a devouring flame; and man fled from its face and hid
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In forests of night; then all the eternal forests were divided
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Into earths rolling in circles of space, that like an ocean rush'd
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And overwhelmed all except this finite wall of flesh.
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Then was the serpent temple form'd, image of infinite
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Shut up in finite revolutions, and man became an Angel;
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Heaven a mighty circle turning; God a tyrant crown'd.
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Now arriv'd the ancient Guardian at the southern porch,
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That planted thick with trees of blackest leaf, & in a vale
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Obscure, inclos'd the Stone of Night; oblique it stood, o'erhung
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With purple flowers and berries red; image of that sweet south,
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Once open to the heavens and elevated on the human neck,
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Now overgrown with hair and coverd with a stony roof,
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Downward 'tis sunk beneath th' attractive north, that round the feet
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A raging whirlpool draws the dizzy enquirer to his grave:
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Albions Angel rose upon the Stone of Night.
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He saw Urizen on the Atlantic;
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And his brazen Book,
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That Kings & Priests had copied on Earth
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Expanded from North to South.
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And the clouds & fires pale rolld round in the night of Enitharmon
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Round Albions cliffs & Londons walls; still Enitharmon slept!
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Rolling volumes of grey mist involve Churches, Palaces, Towers:
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For Urizen unclaspd his Book: feeding his soul with pity
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The youth of England hid in gloom curse the paind heavens; compell'd
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Into the deadly night to see the form of Albions Angel
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Their parents brought them forth & aged ignorance preaches canting,
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On a vast rock, perciev'd by those senses that are clos'd from thought:
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Bleak, dark, abrupt, it stands & overshadows London city
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They saw his boney feet on the rock, the flesh consum'd in flames:
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They saw the Serpent temple lifted above, shadowing the Island white:
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They heard the voice of Albions Angel howling in flames of Orc,
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Seeking the trump of the last doom
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Above the rest the howl was heard from Westminster louder & louder:
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The Guardian of the secret codes forsook his ancient mansion,
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Driven out by the flames of Orc; his furr'd robes & false locks
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Adhered and grew one with his flesh, and nerves & veins shot thro'
them
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With dismal torment sick hanging upon the wind: he fled
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Groveling along Great George Street thro' the Park gate; all the soldiers
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Fled from his sight; he drag'd his torments to the wilderness.
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Thus was the howl thro Europe!
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For Orc rejoic'd to hear the howling shadows
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But Palamabron shot his lightnings trenching down his wide back
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And Rintrah hung with all his legions in the nether deep
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Enitharmon laugh'd in her sleep to see (O womans triumph)
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Every house a den, every man bound; the shadows are filld
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With spectres, and the windows wove over with curses of iron:
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Over the doors Thou shalt not; & over the chimneys Fear is written:
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With bands of iron round their necks fasten'd into the walls
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The citizens: in leaden gyves the inhabitants of suburbs
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Walk heavy: soft and bent are the bones of villagers
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Between the clouds of Urizen the flames of Orc roll heavy
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Around the limbs of Albions Guardian, his flesh consuming.
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Howlings & hissings, shrieks & groans, & voices of despair
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Arise around him in the cloudy t188
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Heavens of Albion, Furious
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The red limb'd Angel siez'd, in horror and torment;
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The Trump of the last doom; but he could not blow the iron tube!
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Thrice he assay'd presumptuous to awake the dead to Judgment.
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A mighty Spirit leap'd from the land of Albion,
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Nam'd Newton; he siez'd the Trump, & blow'd the enormous blast!
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Yellow as leaves of Autumn the myriads of Angelic hosts,
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Fell thro' the wintry skies seeking their graves;
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Rattling their hollow bones in howling and lamentation.
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Then Enitharmon woke, nor knew that she had slept t189
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And eighteen hundred years were fled
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As if they had not been
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She calld her sons & daughters
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To the sports of night,
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Within her crystal house;
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And thus her song proceeds.
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Arise Ethinthus! tho' the earth-worm call;
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Let him call in vain;
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Till the night of holy shadows
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And human solitude is past!
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Ethinthus queen of waters, how thou shinest in the sky:
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My daughter how do I rejoice! for thy children flock around
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Like the gay fishes on the wave, when the cold moon drinks the dew.
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Ethinthus! thou art sweet as comforts to my fainting soul:
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For now thy waters warble round the feet of Enitharmon.
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Manathu-Vorcyon! I behold thee flaming in my halls,
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Light of thy mothers soul! I see thy lovely eagles round;
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Thy golden wings are my delight, & thy flames of soft delusion.
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Where is my lureing bird of Eden! Leutha silent love!
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Leutha, the many colourd bow delights upon thy wings:
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Soft soul of flowers Leutha!
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Sweet smiling pestilence! I see thy blushing light:
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Thy daughters many changing,
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Revolve like sweet perfumes ascending O Leutha silken queen!
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Where is the youthful Antamon. prince of the pearly dew,
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O Antamon, why wilt thou leave thy mother Enitharmon?
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Alone I see thee crystal form,
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Floting upon the bosomd air:
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With lineaments of gratified desire.
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My Antamon the seven churches of Leutha seek thy love.
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I hear the soft Oothoon in Enitharmons tents:
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Why wilt thou give up womans secrecy my melancholy child?
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Between two moments bliss is ripe:
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O Theotormon robb'd of joy, I see thy salt tears flow
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Down the steps of my crystal house.
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Sotha & Thiralatha, secret dwellers of dreamful caves,
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Arise and please the horrent fiend with your melodious songs.
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Still all your thunders golden hoofd, & bind your horses black.
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Orc! smile upon my children!
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Smile son of my afflictions.
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Arise O Orc and give our mountains joy of thy red light.
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She ceas'd, for All were forth at sport beneath the solemn moon
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Waking the stars of Urizen with their immortal songs,
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That nature felt thro' all her pores the enormous revelry,
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Till morning ope'd the eastern gate. t191
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Then every one fled to his station, & Enitharmon wept.
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But terrible Orc, when he beheld the morning in the east,
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Shot from the heights of Enitharmon;
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And in the vineyards of red France appear'd the light of his fury.
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The sun glow'd fiery red!
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The furious terrors flew around!
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On golden chariots raging, with red wheels dropping with blood;
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The Lions lash their wrathful tails!
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The Tigers couch upon the prey & suck the ruddy tide:
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And Enitharmon groans & cries in anguish and dismay.
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Then Los arose his head he reard in snaky thunders clad:
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And with a cry that shook all nature to the utmost pole,
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Call'd all his sons to the strife of blood.
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FINIS
