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THE FOUR ZOAS
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The torments of Love & Jealousy in
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The Death and Judgement
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of Albion the Ancient Man
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by William Blake 1797
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Rest before Labour
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<4 lines of Greek text; Ephesians 6: 12>
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<[For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
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against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
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darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
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places. (King James version)]> t404
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VALA
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Night the First
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The Song of the Aged Mother which shook the heavens with wrath
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Hearing the march of long resounding strong heroic Verse
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Marshalld in order for the day of Intellectual Battle
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Four Mighty Ones are in every Man; a Perfect Unity John XVII c. 21 &
22 & 23 v t406
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Cannot Exist. but from the Universal Brotherhood of Eden John I c. 14.
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The Universal Man. To Whom be Glory Evermore Amen <Greek [kai eskanosen
en [h]amen]>
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[What] are the Natures of those Living Creatures the Heavenly Father
only
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[Knoweth] no Individual [Knoweth nor] Can know in all Eternity
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Los was the fourth immortal starry one, & in the Earth
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Of a bright Universe Empery attended day & night
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Days & nights of revolving joy, Urthona was his name
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In Eden; in the Auricular Nerves of Human life
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Which is the Earth of Eden, he his Emanations propagated
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Fairies of Albion afterwards Gods of the Heathen, Daughter of Beulah Sing
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His fall into Division & his Resurrection to Unity
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His fall into the Generation of Decay & Death & his Regeneration
by the Resurrection from the dead t409
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Begin with Tharmas Parent power. darkning in the West
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Lost! Lost! Lost! are my Emanations Enion O Enion t410
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We are become a Victim to the Living We hide in secret t411
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I have hidden Jerusalem in Silent Contrition O Pity Me t412
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I will build thee a Labyrinth also O pity me O Enion t413
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Why hast thou taken sweet Jerusalem from my inmost Soul t414
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Let her Lay secret in the Soft recess of darkness & silence
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It is not Love I bear to [Jerusalem] It is Pity t415
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She hath taken refuge in my bosom & I cannot cast her out.
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The Men have recieved their death wounds & their Emanations are fled
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To me for refuge & I cannot turn them out for Pitys sake
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Enion said--Thy fear has made me tremble thy terrors have surrounded me
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All Love is lost Terror succeeds & Hatred instead of Love
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And stern demands of Right & Duty instead of Liberty.
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Once thou wast to Me the loveliest son of heaven--But now
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Why art thou Terrible and yet I love thee in thy terror till
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I am almost Extinct & soon shall be a Shadow in Oblivion
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Unless some way can be found that I may look upon thee & live
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Hide me some Shadowy semblance. secret whispring in my Ear
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In secret of soft wings. in mazes of delusive beauty
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I have lookd into the secret soul of him I lovd
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And in the Dark recesses found Sin & cannot return
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Trembling & pale sat Tharmas weeping in his clouds
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Why wilt thou Examine every little fibre of my soul
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Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
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The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
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Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
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But Death Despair & Everlasting brooding Melancholy
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Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus
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Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
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That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
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I am already distracted at their deeds & if I look
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Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
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O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
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Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to destruction
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Sometimes I think thou art a flower expanding
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Sometimes I think thou art fruit breaking from its bud
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In dreadful dolor & pain & I am like an atom
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A Nothing left in darkness yet I am an identity
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I wish & feel & weep & groan Ah terrible terrible
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In Eden Females sleep the winter in soft silken veils t418
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Woven by their own hands to hide them in the darksom grave
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But Males immortal live renewd by female deaths. in soft
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Delight they die & they revive in spring with music & songs
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Enion said Farewell I die I hide from thy searching eyes
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So saying--From her bosom weaving soft in Sinewy threads
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A tabernacle for Jerusalem she sat among the Rocks t419
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Singing her lamentation. Tharmas groand among his Clouds
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Weeping, then bending from his Clouds he stoopd his innocent head
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And stretching out his holy hand in the vast Deep sublime
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Turnd round the circle of Destiny with tears & bitter sighs
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And said. Return O Wanderer when the Day of Clouds is oer
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So saying he sunk down into the sea a pale white corse
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In torment he sunk down & flowd among her filmy Woof t421
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His Spectre issuing from his feet in flames of fire
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In gnawing pain drawn out by her lovd fingers every nerve t422
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She counted. every vein & lacteal threading them among
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Her woof of terror. Terrified & drinking tears of woe
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Shuddring she wove--nine days & nights Sleepless her food was tears
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Wondring she saw her woof begin to animate. & not
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As Garments woven subservient to her hands but having a will
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Of its own perverse & wayward Enion lovd & wept
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Nine days she labourd at her work. & nine dark sleepless nights
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But on the tenth trembling morn the Circle of Destiny Complete
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Round rolld the Sea Englobing in a watry Globe self balancd
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A Frowning Continent appeard Where Enion in the Desart
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Terrified in her own Creation viewing her woven shadow
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Sat in a dread intoxication of Repentance & Contrition
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There is from Great Eternity a mild & pleasant rest
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Namd Beulah a Soft Moony Universe feminine lovely
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Pure mild & Gentle given in Mercy to those who sleep
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Eternally. Created by the Lamb of God around
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On all sides within & without the Universal Man
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The Daughters of Beulah follow sleepers in all their Dreams
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Creating Spaces lest they fall into Eternal Death
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The Circle of Destiny complete they gave to it a Space
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And namd the Space Ulro & brooded over it in care & love
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They said The Spectre is in every man insane & most
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Deformd Thro the three heavens descending in fury & fire
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We meet it with our Songs & loving blandishments & give
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To it a form of vegetation But this Spectre of Tharmas
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Is Eternal Death What shall we do O God pity & help t426
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So spoke they & closd the Gate of the Tongue in trembling fear
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What have I done! said Enion accursed wretch! What deed. t428
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Is this a deed of Love I know what I have done. I know
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Too late now to repent. Love is changd to deadly Hate t429
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A [ll] life is blotted out & I alone remain possessd with Fears
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I see the Shadow of the dead within my Soul wandering t431
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In darkness & solitude forming Seas of Doubt & rocks of Repentance
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Already are my Eyes reverted. all that I behold
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Within my Soul has lost its splendor & a brooding Fear
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Shadows me oer & drives me outward to a world of woe
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So waild she trembling before her own Created Phantasm t433
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She drew the Spectre forth from Tharmas in her shining loom
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Of Vegetation weeping in wayward infancy & sullen youth
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Listning to her soft lamentations soon his tongue began
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To Lisp out words & soon in masculine strength augmenting he
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Reard up a form of gold & stood upon the glittering rock
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A shadowy human form winged & in his depths
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The dazzlings as of gems shone clear, rapturous in fury t436
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Glorying in his own eyes Exalted in terrific Pride t437
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The Spectre thus spoke. Who art thou Diminutive husk & shell
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If thou hast sinnd & art polluted know that I am pure t439
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And unpolluted & will bring to rigid strict account
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All thy past deeds [So] hear what I tell thee! mark it well! remember!
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This world is Thine in which thou dwellest that within thy soul
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That dark & dismal infinite where Thought roams up & down
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Is Mine & there thou goest when with one Sting of my tongue
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Envenomd thou rollst inwards to the place whence I emergd t443
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She trembling answerd Wherefore was I born & what am I
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I thought to weave a Covering for my Sins from wrath of Tharmas
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I thought Tharmas a Sinner & I murderd his Emanations t447
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His secret loves & Graces Ah me wretched What have I done
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For now I find that all those Emanations were my Childrens Souls
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And I have murderd them with Cruelty above atonement t450
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Those that remain have fled from my cruelty into the desarts
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And thou the delusive tempter to these deeds sittest before me
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In this thy world not mine tho dark I feel my world within
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Mingling his horrible brightness with her tender limbs then high she soard
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Above the ocean; a bright wonder that Nature shudder'd at t454
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Half Woman & half Spectre, all his lovely changing colours mix
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With her fair crystal clearness; in her lips & cheeks his poisons rose
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In blushes like the morning, and his scaly armour softening
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A monster lovely in the heavens or wandering on the earth,
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Till with fierce pain she brought forth on the rocks her sorrow & woe
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Behold two little Infants wept upon the desolate wind. t459
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The first state weeping they began & helpless as a wave
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Beaten along its sightless way growing enormous in its motion to
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Its utmost goal, till strength from Enion like richest summer shining
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Raisd the bright boy & girl with glories from their heads beaming
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Drawing forth drooping mothers pity drooping mothers sorrow
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They sulk upon her breast her hair became like snow on mountains
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Weaker & weaker, weeping woful, wearier and wearier
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Faded & her bright Eyes decayd melted with pity & love
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And then they wanderd far away she sought for them in vain
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In weeping blindness stumbling she followd them oer rocks & mountains
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Rehumanizing from the Spectre in pangs of maternal love
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Ingrate they wanderd scorning her drawing her Spectrous Life
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Repelling her away & away by a dread repulsive power
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Into Non Entity revolving round in dark despair.
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And drawing in the Spectrous life in pride and haughty joy
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Thus Enion gave them all her spectrous life t466
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Then Eno a daughter of Beulah took a Moment of Time t467
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And drew it out to Seven thousand years with much care & affliction
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And many tears & in Every year made windows into Eden t469
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She also took an atom of space & opend its center
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Into Infinitude & ornamented it with wondrous art
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Astonishd sat her Sisters of Beulah to see her soft affections
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To Enion & her children & they ponderd these things wondring
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And they Alternate kept watch over the Youthful terrors
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They saw not yet the Hand Divine for it was not yet reveald
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But they went on in Silent Hope & Feminine repose
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But Los & Enitharmon delighted in the Moony spaces of Eno
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Nine Times they livd among the forests, feeding n sweet fruits
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And nine bright Spaces wanderd weaving mazes of delight
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Snaring the wild Goats for their milk they eat the flesh of Lambs
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A male & female naked & ruddy as the pride of summer
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Alternate Love & Hate his breast; hers Scorn & Jealousy
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In embryon passions. they kiss'd not nor embrac'd for shame & fear
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His head beamd light & in his vigorous voice was prophecy
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He could controll the times & seasons, & the days & years
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She could controll the spaces, regions, desart, flood & forest
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But had no power to weave a Veil of covering for her Sins
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She drave the Females all away from Los
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And Los drave all the Males from her away
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They wanderd long, till they sat down upon the margind sea.
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Conversing with the visions of Beulah in dark slumberous bliss
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But the two youthful wonders wanderd in the world of Tharmas
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Thy name is Enitharmon; said the fierce prophetic boy t474
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While thy mild voice fills all these Caverns with sweet harmony
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O how our Parents sit & mourn in their silent secret bowers
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But Enitharmon answerd with a dropping tear & frowning
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Dark as a dewy morning when the crimson light appears t477
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To make us happy let them weary their immortal powers t478
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While we draw in their sweet delights while we return them scorn
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On scorn to feed our discontent; for if we grateful prove
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They will withhold sweet love, whose food is thorns & bitter roots.
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We hear the warlike clarions we view the turning spheres t480
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Yet Thou in indolence reposest holding me in bonds
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Hear! I will sing a Song of Death! it is a Song of Vala! t481
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The Fallen Man takes his repose: Urizen sleeps in the porch
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Luvah and Vala woke & flew up from the Human Heart t483
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Into the Brain; from thence upon the pillow Vala slumber'd.
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And Luvah siez'd the Horses of Light, & rose into the Chariot of Day
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Sweet laughter siezd me in my sleep! silent & close I laughd
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For in the visions of Vala I walkd with the mighty Fallen One
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I heard his voice among the branches, & among sweet flowers.
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Why is the light of Enitharmon darken'd in dewy morn t487
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Why is the silence of Enitharmon a terror & her smile a whirlwind
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Uttering this darkness in my halls, in the pillars of my Holy-ones
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Why dost thou weep as Vala? & wet thy veil with dewy tears,
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In slumbers of my night-repose, infusing a false morning?
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Driving the Female Emanations all away from Los t490
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I have refusd to look upon the Universal Vision
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And wilt thou slay with death him who devotes himself to thee
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Once born for the sport & amusement of Man now born to drink up all
his Powers
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I heard the sounding sea; I heard the voice weaker and weaker;
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The voice came & went like a dream, I awoke in my sweet bliss.
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Then Los smote her upon the Earth twas long eer she revivd
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He answer'd, darkning more with indignation hid in smiles t492
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I die not Enitharmon tho thou singst thy Song of Death t493
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Nor shalt thou me torment For I behold the Fallen Man t494
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Seeking to comfort Vala, she will not be comforted t495
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She rises from his throne and seeks the shadows of her garden
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Weeping for Luvah lost, in the bloody beams of your false morning
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Sickning lies the Fallen Man his head sick his heart faint
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Mighty atchievement of your power! Beware the punishment
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I see, invisible decend into the Gardens of Vala
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Luvah walking on the winds, I see the invisible knife
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I see the shower of blood: I see the swords & spears of futurity
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Tho in the Brain of Man we live, & in his circling Nerves.
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Tho' this bright world of all our joy is in the Human Brain.
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Where Urizen & all his Hosts hang their immortal lamps
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Thou neer shalt leave this cold expanse where watry Tharmas mourns
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So spoke Los. Scorn & Indignation rose upon Enitharmon
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Then Enitharmon reddning fierce stretchd her immortal hands
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Descend O Urizen descend with horse & chariots
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Threaten not me O visionary thine the punishment
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The Human Nature shall no more remain nor Human acts
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Form the rebellious Spirits of Heaven. but War & Princedom & Victory
& Blood t498
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Night darkend as she spoke! a shuddring ran from East to West
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A Groan was heard on high. The warlike clarions ceast. the Spirits
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Of Luvah & Vala shudderd in their Orb: an orb of blood!
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Eternity groand & was troubled at the Image of Eternal Death
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The Wandering Man bow'd his faint head and Urizen descended
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And the one must have murderd the other if he had not descended
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Indignant muttering low thunders; Urizen descended
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Gloomy sounding, Now I am God from Eternity to Eternity
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Sullen sat Los plotting Revenge. Silent he eye'd the Prince
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Of Light. Silent the prince of Light viewd Los. at length a brooded
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Smile broke from Urizen for Enitharmon brightend more & more
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Sullen he lowerd on Enitharmon but he smild on Los
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Saying Thou art the Lord of Luvah into thine hands I give
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The prince of Love the murderer his soul is in thine hands
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Pity not Vala for she pitied not the Eternal Man
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Nor pity thou the cries of Luvah. Lo these starry hosts
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They are thy servants if thou wilt obey my awful Law
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Los answerd furious art thou one of those who when most complacent
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Mean mischief most. If you are such Lo! I am also such
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One must be master. try thy Arts I also will try mine
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For I percieve Thou hast Abundance which I claim as mine
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Urizen startled stood but not Long soon he cried
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Obey my voice young Demon I am God from Eternity to Eternity
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Thus Urizen spoke collected in himself in awful pride
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Art thou a visionary of Jesus the soft delusion of Eternity
FZ1-12.26; E307|
Lo I am God the terrible destroyer & not the Saviour
FZ1-12.27; E307|
Why should the Divine Vision compell the sons of Eden
FZ1-12.28; E307|
to forego each his own delight to war against his Spectre t504
FZ1-12.29; E307|
The Spectre is the Man the rest is only delusion & fancy
FZ1-12.30; E307|
So spoke the Prince of Light & sat beside the Seat of Los
FZ1-12.31; E307|
Upon the sandy shore rested his chariot of fire
FZ1-12.32; E307|
Ten thousand thousand were his hosts of spirits on the wind:
FZ1-12.33; E307|
Ten thousand thousand glittering Chariots shining in the sky:
FZ1-12.34; E307|
They pour upon the golden shore beside the silent ocean.
FZ1-12.35; E307|
Rejoicing in the Victory & the heavens were filld with blood
t505
FZ1-12.36; E307|
The Earth spread forth her table wide. the Night a silver cup
FZ1-12.37; E307|
Fill'd with the wine of anguish waited at the golden feast
FZ1-12.38; E307|
But the bright Sun was not as yet; he filling all the expanse
FZ1-12.39; E307|
Slept as a bird in the blue shell that soon shall burst away
FZ1-12.40; E307|
Los saw the wound of his blow he saw he pitied he wept t506
FZ1-12.41; E307|
Los now repented that he had smitten Enitharmon he felt love
FZ1-12.42; E307|
Arise in all his Veins he threw his arms around her loins
FZ1-12.43; E307|
To heal the wound of his smiting
FZ1-12.44; E307|
They eat the fleshly bread, they drank the nervous wine t507
FZ1-13.1; E308|
They listend to the Elemental Harps & Sphery Song
FZ1-13.2; E308|
They view'd the dancing Hours, quick sporting thro' the sky
FZ1-13.3; E308|
With winged radiance scattering joys thro the ever changing light
FZ1-13.4; E308|
But Luvah & Vala standing in the bloody sky t508
FZ1-13.5; E308|
On high remaind alone forsaken in fierce jealousy
FZ1-13.6; E308|
They stood above the heavens forsaken desolate suspended in blood
FZ1-13.7; E308|
Descend they could not. nor from Each other avert their eyes
FZ1-13.8; E308|
Eternity appeard above them as One Man infolded
FZ1-13.9; E308|
In Luvah[s] robes of blood & bearing all his afflictions
t509
FZ1-13.10; E308|
As the sun shines down on the misty earth Such was the Vision
FZ1-13.11; E308|
But purple night and crimson morning & golden day descending
t510
FZ1-13.12; E308|
Thro' the clear changing atmosphere display'd green fields among
FZ1-13.13; E308|
The varying clouds, like paradises stretch'd in the expanse
FZ1-13.14; E308|
With towns & villages and temples, tents sheep-folds and pastures
FZ1-13.15; E308|
Where dwell the children of the elemental worlds in harmony.
FZ1-13.16; E308|
Not long in harmony they dwell, their life is drawn away t511
FZ1-13.17; E308|
And wintry woes succeed; successive driven into the Void
FZ1-13.18; E308|
Where Enion craves: successive drawn into the golden feast
FZ1-13.19; E308|
And Los & Enitharmon sat in discontent & scorn t512
FZ1-13.20; E308|
The Nuptial Song arose from all the thousand thousand spirits
t513
FZ1-13.21; E308|
Over the joyful Earth & Sea, and ascended into the Heavens
FZ1-13.22; E308|
For Elemental Gods their thunderous Organs blew; creating
FZ1-13.23; E308|
Delicious Viands. Demons of Waves their watry Eccho's woke!
FZ1-13.24; E308|
Bright Souls of vegetative life, budding and blossoming t514
FZ1-14.1; E308|
Stretch their immortal hands to smite the gold & silver Wires
FZ1-14.2; E308|
And with immortal Voice soft warbling fill all Earth & Heaven.
FZ1-14.3; E308|
With doubling Voices & loud Horns wound round sounding
FZ1-14.4; E308|
Cavernous dwellers fill'd the enormous Revelry, Responsing!
FZ1-14.5; E308|
And Spirits of Flaming fire on high, govern'd the mighty Song.
FZ1-14.6; E308|
And This the Song! sung at The Feast of Los & Enitharmon
FZ1-14.7; E308|
Ephraim calld out to Zion: Awake O Brother Mountain t515
FZ1-14.8; E308|
Let us refuse the Plow & Spade, the heavy Roller & spiked
FZ1-14.9; E308|
Harrow. burn all these Corn fields. throw down all these fences
FZ1-14.10; E308|
Fattend on Human blood & drunk with wine of life is better far
FZ1-14.11; E308|
Than all these labours of the harvest & the vintage. See the river
FZ1-14.12; E308|
Red with the blood of Men. swells lustful round my rocky knees
FZ1-14.13; E308|
My clouds are not the clouds of verdant fields & groves of fruit
FZ1-14.14; E308|
But Clouds of Human Souls. my nostrils drink the lives of Men
t516
FZ1-14.15; E308|
The Villages Lament. they faint outstretchd upon the plain
FZ1-14.16; E308|
Wailing runs round the Valleys from the Mill & from the Barn
t517
FZ1-14.17; E309|
But most the polishd Palaces dark silent bow with dread t518
FZ1-14.18; E309|
Hiding their books & pictures. underneath the dens of Earth
FZ1-14.19; E309|
The Cities send to one another saying My sons are Mad
FZ1-14.20; E309|
With wine of cruelty. Let us plat a Scourge O Sister City t519
FZ1-14.21; E309|
Children are nourishd for the Slaughter; once the Child was fed
FZ1-14.22; E309|
With Milk; but wherefore now are Children fed with blood t520
FZ1-15.1; E309|
The Horse is of more value than the Man. The Tyger fierce
FZ1-15.2; E309|
Laughs at the Human form. the Lion mocks & thirsts for blood
FZ1-15.3; E309|
They cry O Spider spread thy web! Enlarge thy bones & fill'd
FZ1-15.4; E309|
With marrow. sinews & flesh Exalt thyself attain a voice
FZ1-15.5; E309|
Call to thy dark armd hosts, for all the sons of Men muster together
FZ1-15.6; E309|
To desolate their cities! Man shall be no more! Awake O Hosts
FZ1-15.7; E309|
The bow string sang upon the hills! Luvah & Vala ride
FZ1-15.8; E309|
Triumphant in the bloody sky. & the Human form is no more
t521
FZ1-15.9; E309|
The listning Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
FZ115.10; E309|
He cried out to his Father, depart! depart! but sudden Siez'd
t522
FZ1-15.11; E309|
And clad in steel. & his Horse proudly neighd; he smelt the battle
t523
FZ1-15.12; E309|
Afar off, Rushing back, reddning with rage the Mighty Father
t524
FZ1-15.13; E309|
Siezd his bright Sheephook studded with gems & gold, he Swung it round
FZ1-15.14; E309|
His head shrill sounding in the sky, down rushd the Sun with noise
FZ1-15.15; E309|
Of war, The Mountains fled away they sought a place beneath
FZ1-15.16; E309|
Vala remaind in desarts of dark solitude. nor Sun nor Moon
FZ1-15.17; E309|
By night nor day to comfort her, she labourd in thick smoke
t525
FZ1-15.18; E309|
Tharmas endurd not, he fled howling. then a barren waste sunk
FZ1-15.19; E309|
Conglobing in the dark confusion, Mean time Los was born
FZ1-15.20; E309|
And Thou O Enitharmon! Hark I hear the hammers of Los t526
FZ1-16.1; E309|
They melt the bones of Vala, & the bones of Luvah into wedges
FZ1-16.2; E309|
The innumerable sons & daughters of Luvah closd in furnaces
FZ1-16.3; E309|
Melt into furrows. winter blows his bellows: ice & Snow
FZ1-16.4; E309|
Tend the dire anvils. Mountains mourn & Rivers faint & fail
FZ1-16.5; E309|
There is no City nor Corn-field nor Orchard! all is Rock & Sand
FZ1-16.6; E309|
There is no Sun nor Moon nor Star. but rugged wintry rocks
FZ1-16.7; E309|
Justling together in the void suspended by inward fires
FZ1-16.8; E309|
Impatience now no longer can endure. Distracted Luvah
FZ1-16.9; E309|
Bursting forth from the loins of Enitharmon, Thou fierce Terror
FZ1-16.10; E309|
Go howl in vain, Smite Smite his fetters Smite O wintry hammers
FZ1-16.11; E309|
Smite Spectre of Urthona, mock the fiend who drew us down
FZ1-16.12; E309|
From heavens of joy into this Deep. Now rage but rage in vain
FZ1-16.13; E310|
Thus Sang the Demons of the Deep. the Clarions of War blew loud
FZ1-16.14; E310|
The Feast redounds & Crownd with roses & the circling vine
FZ1-16.15; E310|
The Enormous Bride & Bridegroom sat, beside them Urizen
FZ1-16.16; E310|
With faded radiance sighd, forgetful of the flowing wine
FZ1-16.17; E310|
And of Ahania his Pure Bride but She was distant far
FZ1-16.18; E310|
But Los & Enitharmon sat in discontent & scorn
FZ1-16.19; E310|
Craving the more the more enjoying, drawing out sweet bliss
FZ1-16.20; E310|
From all the turning wheels of heaven & the chariots of the Slain
FZ1-16.21; E310|
At distance Far in Night repelld. in direful hunger craving
FZ1-16.22; E310|
Summers & Winters round revolving in the frightful deep.
FZ1-17.1; E310|
Enion blind & age-bent wept upon the desolate wind t527
FZ1-17.2; E310|
Why does the Raven cry aloud and no eye pities her?
FZ1-17.3; E310|
Why fall the Sparrow & the Robin in the foodless winter?
FZ1-17.4; E310|
Faint! shivering they sit on leafless bush, or frozen stone
t528
FZ1-17.5; E310|
Wearied with seeking food across the snowy waste; the little
FZ1-17.6; E310|
Heart, cold; and the little tongue consum'd, that once in thoughtless joy
FZ1-17.7; E310|
Gave songs of gratitude to waving corn fields round their nest. t529
FZ1-17.8; E310|
Why howl the Lion & the Wolf? why do they roam abroad?
t530
FZ1-17.9; E310|
Deluded by summers heat they sport in enormous love t531
FZ1-17.10; E310|
And cast their young out to the hungry wilds & sandy desarts
FZ1-18.1; E310|
Why is the Sheep given to the knife? the Lamb plays in the Sun
FZ1-18.2; E310|
He starts! he hears the foot of Man! he says, Take thou my wool
FZ1-18.3; E310|
But spare my life, but he knows not that winter cometh fast.
t532
FZ1-18.4; E310|
The Spider sits in his labourd Web, eager watching for the Fly
FZ1-18.5; E310|
Presently comes a famishd Bird & takes away the Spider
FZ1-18.6; E310|
His Web is left all desolate, that his little anxious heart
FZ1-18.7; E310|
So careful wove; & spread it out with sighs and weariness.
FZ1-18.8; E310|
This was the Lamentation of Enion round the golden Feast
FZ1-18.9; E310|
Eternity groand and was troubled at the image of Eternal Death
FZ1-18.10; E310|
Without the body of Man an Exudation from his sickning limbs
FZ1-18.11; E310|
Now Man was come to the Palm tree & to the Oak of Weeping
t533
FZ1-18.12; E310|
Which stand upon the Edge of Beulah & he sunk down
FZ1-8.13; E310|
From the Supporting arms of the Eternal Saviour; who disposd
FZ1-18.14; E310|
The pale limbs of his Eternal Individuality
FZ1-18.15; E310|
Upon The Rock of Ages. Watching over him with Love & Care
t534
FZ1-21.1; E310|
Then those in Great Eternity met in the Council of God
FZ1-21.2; E310|
As one Man for contracting their Exalted Senses
FZ1-21.3; E311|
They behold Multitude or Expanding they behold as one
FZ1-21.4; E311|
As One Man all the Universal family & that one Man t536
FZ1-21.5; E311|
They call Jesus the Christ & they in him & he in them
FZ1-21.6; E311|
Live in Perfect harmony in Eden the land of life
FZ1-21.7; E311|
Consulting as One Man above the Mountain of Snowdon Sublime
t537
FZ1-21.8; E311|
For messengers from Beulah come in tears & darkning clouds
FZ1-21.9; E311|
Saying Shiloh is in ruins our brother is sick Albion He t538
FZ1-21.10; E311|
Whom thou lovest is sick he wanders from his house of Eternity
FZ1-21.11; E311|
The daughters of Beulah terrified have closd the Gate of the Tongue
FZ1-21.12; E311|
Luvah & Urizen contend in war around the holy tent
FZ1-21.13; E311|
So spoke the Ambassadors from Beulah & with solemn mourning
t539
FZ1-21.14; E311|
They were introducd to the divine presence & they kneeled down
FZ1-21.15; E311|
In Conways Vale thus recounting the Wars of Death Eternal t540
FZ1-21.16; E311|
The Eternal Man wept in the holy tent Our Brother in Eternity
FZ1-21.17; E311|
Even Albion whom thou lovest wept in pain his family
FZ1-21.18; E311|
Slept round on hills & valleys in the regions of his love
FZ1-21.19; E311|
But Urizen awoke & Luvah woke & thus conferrd
FZ1-21.20; E311|
Thou Luvah said the Prince of Light behold our sons & daughters
FZ1-21.21; E311|
Reposd on beds. let them sleep on. do thou alone depart
FZ1-21.22; E311|
Into thy wished Kingdom where in Majesty & Power
FZ1-21.23; E311|
We may erect a throne. deep in the North I place my lot
FZ1-21.24; E311|
Thou in the South listen attentive. In silent of this night
FZ1-21.25; E311|
I will infold the Eternal tent in clouds opake while thou
FZ1-21.26; E311|
Siezing the chariots of the morning. Go oufleeting ride
FZ1-21.27; E311|
Afar into the Zenith high bending thy furious course
FZ1-21.28; E311|
Southward with half the tents of men inclosd in clouds
FZ1-21.29; E311|
Of Tharmas & Urthona. I remaining in porches of the brain
FZ1-21.30; E311|
Will lay my scepter on Jerusalem the Emanation
FZ1-21.31; E311|
On all her sons & on thy sons O Luvah & on mine t541
FZ1-21.32; E311|
Till dawn was wont to wake them then my trumpet sounding loud
FZ1-21.33; E311|
Ravishd away in night my strong command shall be obeyd
FZ1-21.34; E311|
For I have placd my centinels in stations each tenth man
FZ1-21.35; E311|
Is bought & sold & in dim night my Word shall be their law
FZ1-22.1; E311|
Luvah replied Dictate to thy Equals. am not I
FZ1-22.2; E311|
The Prince of all the hosts of Men nor Equal know in Heaven
FZ1-22.3; E311|
If I arise into the Zenith leaving thee to watch
FZ1-22.4; E311|
The Emanation & her Sons the Satan & the Anak
FZ1-22.5; E311|
Sihon and Og. wilt thou not rebel to my laws remain
FZ1-22.6; E311|
In darkness building thy strong throne & in my ancient night
FZ1-22.7; E311|
Daring my power wilt arm my sons against me in the Atlantic
t542
FZ1-22.8; E311|
My deep My night which thou assuming hast assumed my Crown
FZ1-22.9; E311|
I will remain as well as thou & here with hands of blood
FZ1-22.10; E311|
Smite this dark sleeper in his tent then try my strength with thee
FZ1-22.11; E312|
While thus he spoke his fires reddend oer the holy tent t543
FZ1-22.12; E312|
Urizen cast deep darkness round him silent brooding death
FZ1-22.13; E312|
Eternal death to Luvah. raging Luvah pourd
FZ1-22.14; E312|
The Lances of Urizen from chariots. round the holy tent
FZ1-22.15; E312|
Discord began & yells & cries shook the wide firmament
FZ1-22.16; E312|
Beside his anvil stood Urthona dark. a mass of iron
FZ1-22.17; E312|
Glowd furious on the anvil prepard for spades & coulters All
FZ1-22.18; E312|
His sons fled from his side to join the conflict pale he heard
FZ1-22.19; E312|
The Eternal voice he stood the sweat chilld on his mighty limbs
FZ1-22.20; E312|
He dropd his hammer. dividing from his aking bosom fled
FZ1-22.21; E312|
A portion of his life shrieking upon the wind she fled
FZ1-22.22; E312|
And Tharmas took her in pitying Then Enion in jealous fear
FZ1-22.23; E312|
Murderd her & hid her in her bosom embalming her for fear
FZ1-22.24; E312|
She should arise again to life Embalmd in Enions bosom
FZ1-22.25; E312|
Enitharmon remains a corse such thing was never known
FZ1-22.26; E312|
In Eden that one died a death never to be revivd
FZ1-22.27; E312|
Urthona stood in terror but not long his spectre fled
FZ1-22.28; E312|
To Enion & his body fell. Tharmas beheld him fall
FZ1-22.29; E312|
Endlong a raging serpent rolling round the holy tent
FZ1-22.30; E312|
The sons of war astonishd at the Glittring monster drove
FZ1-22.31; E312|
Him far into the world of Tharmas into a cavernd rock
FZ1-22.32; E312|
But Urizen with darkness overspreading all the armies
FZ1-22.33; E312|
Sent round his heralds secretly commanding to depart
FZ1-22.34; E312|
Into the north Sudden with thunders sound his multitudes
FZ1-22.35; E312|
Retreat from the fierce conflict all the sons of Urizen at once
FZ1-22.36; E312|
Mustring together in thick clouds leaving the rage of Luvah
FZ1-22.37; E312|
To pour its fury on himself & on the Eternal Man
FZ1-22.38; E312|
Sudden down fell they all together into an unknown Space
FZ1-22.39; E312|
Deep horrible without End. Separated from Beulah far beneath
FZ1-22.40; E312|
The Mans exteriors are become indefinite opend to pain
FZ1-22.41; E312|
In a fierce hungring void & none can visit his regions
FZ1-21[19].1; E312|
Jerusalem his Emanation is become a ruin t544
FZ1-21[19].2; E312|
Her little ones are slain on the top of every street t545
FZ1-21[19].3; E312|
And she herself le[d] captive & scatterd into the indefinite
t546
FZ1-21[19].4; E312|
Gird on thy sword O thou most mighty in glory & majesty
FZ1-21[19].5; E312|
Destroy these opressors of Jerusalem & those who ruin Shiloh
FZ1-21[19].6; E312|
So spoke the Messengers of Beulah. Silently removing
FZ1-21[19].7; E312|
The Family Divine drew up the Universal tent
FZ1-21[19].8; E312|
Above High Snowdon & closd the Messengers in clouds around
t547
FZ1-21[19].9; E312|
Till the time of the End. Then they Elected Seven. called the Seven
FZ1-21[19].10; E312|
Eyes of God & the Seven lamps of the Almighty
FZ1-21[19].11; E312|
The Seven are one within the other the Seventh is named Jesus
FZ1-21[19].12; E313|
The Lamb of God blessed for ever & he followd the Man
FZ1-21[19].13; E313|
Who wanderd in mount Ephraim seeking a Sepulcher
FZ1-21[19].14; E313|
His inward eyes closing from the Divine vision & all
FZ1-21[19].15; E313|
His children wandering outside from his bosom fleeing away
t548
FZ1-22[20].1; E313|
The Daughters of Beulah beheld the Emanation they pitied
FZ1-22[20].2; E313|
They wept before the Inner gates of Enitharmons bosom
FZ1-22[20].3; E313|
And of her fine wrought brain & of her bowels within her loins
FZ1-22[20].4; E313|
Three gates within Glorious & bright open into Beulah t550
FZ1-22[20].5; E313|
From Enitharmons inward parts but the bright female terror
FZ1-22[20].6; E313|
Refusd to open the bright gates she closd and barrd them fast
FZ1-22[20].7; E313|
Lest Los should enter into Beulah thro her beautiful gates
FZ1-22[20].8; E313|
The Emanation stood before the Gates of Enitharmon t551
FZ1-22[20].9; E313|
Weeping. the Daughters of Beulah silent in the Porches
FZ1-22[20].10; E313|
Spread her a couch unknown to Enitharmon here reposd
FZ1-22[20].11; E313|
Jerusalem in slumbers soft lulld into silent rest
FZ1-22[20].12; E313|
Terrific ragd the Eternal Wheels of intellect terrific ragd
FZ1-22[20].13; E313|
The living creatures of the wheels in the Wars of Eternal life
FZ1-22[20].14; E313|
But perverse rolld the wheels of Urizen & Luvah back reversd
FZ1-22[20].15; E313|
Downwards & outwards consuming in the wars of Eternal Death
t552
FZ1-21[19]end; E313|
End of The First Night
