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THE SONG of LOS
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LAMBETH Printed by W Blake 1795
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AFRICA
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I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet:
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He sung it to four harps at the tables of Eternity.
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In heart-formed Africa.
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Urizen faded! Ariston shudderd!
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And thus the Song began
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Adam stood in the garden of Eden:
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And Noah on the mountains of Ararat;
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They saw Urizen give his Laws to the Nations
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By the hands of the children of Los.
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Adam shudderd! Noah faded! black grew the sunny African
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When Rintrah gave Abstract Philosophy to Brama in the East:
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(Night spoke to the Cloud!
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Lo these Human form'd spirits in smiling hipocrisy. War
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Against one another; so let them War on; slaves to the eternal Elements)
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Noah shrunk, beneath the waters;
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Abram fled in fires from Chaldea;
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Moses beheld upon Mount Sinai forms of dark delusion:
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To Trismegistus. Palamabron gave an abstract Law:
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To Pythagoras Socrates & Plato.
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Times rolled on o'er all the sons of Har, time after time
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Orc on Mount Atlas howld, chain'd down with the Chain of Jealousy
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Then Oothoon hoverd over Judah & Jerusalem
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And Jesus heard her voice (a man of sorrows) he recievd
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A Gospel from wretched Theotormon.
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The human race began to wither, for the healthy built
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Secluded places, fearing the joys of Love
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And the disease'd only propagated:
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So Antamon call'd up Leutha from her valleys of delight:
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And to Mahomet a loose Bible gave.
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But in the North, to Odin, Sotha gave a Code of War,
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Because of Diralada thinking to reclaim his joy.
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These were the Churches: Hospitals: Castles: Palaces:
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Like nets & gins & traps to catch the joys of Eternity
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And all the rest a desart;
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Till like a dream Eternity was obliterated & erased.
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Since that dread day when Har and Heva fled.
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Because their brethren & sisters liv'd in War & Lust;
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And as they fled they shrunk
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Into two narrow doleful forms:
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Creeping in reptile flesh upon
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The bosom of the ground:
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And all the vast of Nature shrunk
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Before their shrunken eyes.
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Thus the terrible race of Los & Enitharmon gave
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Laws & Religions to the sons of Har binding them more
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And more to Earth: closing and restraining:
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Till a Philosophy of Five Senses was complete
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Urizen wept & gave it into the hands of Newton & Locke
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Clouds roll heavy upon the Alps round Rousseau & Voltaire:
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And on the mountains of Lebanon round the deceased Gods
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Of Asia; & on the desarts of Africa round the Fallen Angels
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The Guardian Prince of Albion burns in his nightly tent
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ASIA
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The Kings of Asia heard
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The howl rise up from Europe!
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And each ran out from his Web;
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From his ancient woven Den;
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For the darkness of Asia was startled
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At the thick-flaming, thought-creating fires of Orc.
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And the Kings of Asia stood
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And cried in bitterness of soul.
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Shall not the King call for Famine from the heath?
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Nor the Priest, for Pestilence from the fen?
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To restrain! to dismay! to thin!
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The inhabitants of mountain and plain;
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In the day, of full-feeding prosperity;
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And the night of delicious songs.
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Shall not the Councellor throw his curb
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Of Poverty on the laborious?
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To fix the price of labour;
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To invent allegoric riches:
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And the privy admonishers of men
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Call for fires in the City
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For heaps of smoking ruins,
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In the night of prosperity & wantonness
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To turn man from his path,
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To restrain the child from the womb,
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To cut off the bread from the city,
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That the remnant may learn to obey.
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That the pride of the heart may fail;
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That the lust of the eyes may be quench'd:
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That the delicate ear in its infancy
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May be dull'd; and the nostrils clos'd up;
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To teach mortal worms the path
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That leads from the gates of the Grave.
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Urizen heard them cry!
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And his shudd'ring waving wings
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Went enormous above the red flames
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Drawing clouds of despair thro' the heavens
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Of Europe as he went:
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And his Books of brass iron & gold
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Melted over the land as he flew,
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Heavy-waving, howling, weeping.
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And he stood over Judea:
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And stay'd in his ancient place:
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And stretch'd his clouds over Jerusalem;
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For Adam, a mouldering skeleton
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Lay bleach'd on the garden of Eden;
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And Noah as white as snow
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On the mountains of Ararat.
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Then the thunders of Urizen bellow'd aloud
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From his woven darkness above.
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Orc raging in European darkness
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Arose like a pillar of fire above the Alps
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Like a serpent of fiery flame!
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The sullen Earth
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Shrunk!
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Forth from the dead dust rattling bones to bones
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Join: shaking convuls'd the shivring clay breathes
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And all flesh naked stands: Fathers and Friends;
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Mothers & Infants; Kings & Warriors:
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The Grave shrieks with delight, & shakes
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Her hollow womb, & clasps the solid stem:
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Her bosom swells with wild desire:
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And milk & blood & glandous wine
