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THE FOUR ZOAS
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PAGE 57 VALA
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Night The Fifth t701
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Infected Mad he dancd on his mountains high & dark as heaven
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Now fixd into one stedfast bulk his features stonify
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From his mouth curses & from his eyes sparks of blighting
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Beside the anvil cold he dancd with the hammer of Urthona
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Terrific pale. Enitharmon stretchd on the dreary Earth t702
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Felt her immortal limbs freeze stiffning pale inflexible
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His feet shrink withring from the deep shrinking & withering
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And Enitharmon shrunk up all their fibres withring beneath
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As plants witherd by winter leaves & stems & roots decaying
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Melt into thin air while the seed drivn by the furious wind
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Rests on the distant Mountains top. So Los & Enitharmon
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Shrunk into fixed space stood trembling on a Rocky cliff
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Yet mighty bulk & majesty & beauty remaind but unexpansive
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As far as highest Zenith from the lowest Nadir. so far shrunk
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Los from the furnaces a Space immense & left the cold
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Prince of Light bound in chains of intellect among the furnaces
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But all the furnaces were out & the bellows had ceast to blow
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He stood trembling & Enitharmon clung around his knees
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Their senses unexpansive in one stedfast bulk remain
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The night blew cold & Enitharmon shriekd on the dismal wind
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Her pale hands cling around her husband & over her weak head
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Shadows of Eternal death sit in the leaden air
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But the soft pipe the flute the viol organ harp & cymbal
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And the sweet sound of silver voices calm the weary couch
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Of Enitharmon but her groans drown the immortal harps
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Loud & more loud the living music floats upon the air
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Faint & more faint the daylight wanes. The wheels of turning darkness
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Began in solemn revolutions. Earth convulsd with rending pangs
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Rockd to & fro & cried sore at the groans of Enitharmon
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Still the faint harps & silver voices calm the weary couch
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But from the caves of deepest night ascending in clouds of mist
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The winter spread his wide black wings across from pole to pole
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Grim frost beneath & terrible snow linkd in a marriage chain
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Began a dismal dance. The winds around on pointed rocks
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Settled like bats innumerable ready to fly abroad
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The groans of Enitharmon shake the skies the labring Earth
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Till from her heart rending his way a terrible Child sprang forth
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In thunder smoke & sullen flames & howlings & fury & blood
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Soon as his burning Eyes were opend on the Abyss
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The horrid trumpets of the deep bellowd with bitter blasts
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The Enormous Demons woke & howld around the new born king
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Crying Luvah King of Love thou art the King of rage & death
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Urizen cast deep darkness round him raging Luvah pourd t707
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The spears of Urizen from Chariots round the Eternal tent
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Discord began then yells & cries shook the wide firma[m]ent
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Where is Sweet Vala gloomy prophet where the lovely form
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That drew the body of Man from heaven into this dark Abyss
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Soft tears & sighs where are you come forth shout on bloody fields
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Shew thy soul Vala shew thy bow & quiver of secret fires
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Draw thy bow Vala from the depths of hell thy black bow draw
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And twang the bow string to our howlings let thine arrows black
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Sing in the Sky as once they sang upon the hills of Light
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When dark Urthona wept in torment of the secret pain
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He wept & he divided & he laid his gloomy head
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Down on the Rock of Eternity on darkness of the deep
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Torn by black storms & ceaseless torrents of consuming fire
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Within his breast his fiery sons chaind down & filld with cursings
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And breathing terrible blood & vengeance gnashing his teeth with pain
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Let loose the Enormous Spirit in the darkness of the deep
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And his dark wife that once fair crystal form divinely clear
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Within his ribs producing serpents whose souls are flames of fire
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But now the times return upon thee Enitharmons womb
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Now holds thee soon to issue forth. Sound Clarions of war
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Call Vala from her close recess in all her dark deceit
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Then rage on rage shall fierce redound out of her crystal quiver
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So sung the Demons round red Orc & round faint Enitharmon
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Sweat & blood stood on the limbs of Los in globes. his fiery Eyelids
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Faded. he rouzd he siezd the wonder in his hands & went
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Shuddring & weeping thro the Gloom & down into the deeps
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Enitharmon nursd her fiery child in the dark deeps
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Sitting in darkness. over her Los mournd in anguish fierce
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Coverd with gloom. the fiery boy grew fed by the milk
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Of Enitharmon. Los around her builded pillars of iron
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And brass & silver & gold fourfold in dark prophetic fear
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For now he feard Eternal Death & uttermost Extinction t711
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He builded Golgonooza on the Lake of Udan Adan
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Upon the Limit of Translucence then he builded Luban
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Tharmas laid the Foundations & Los finishd it in howling woe
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But when fourteen summers & winters had revolved over
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Their solemn habitation Los beheld the ruddy boy
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Embracing his bright mother & beheld malignant fires
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In his young eyes discerning plain that Orc plotted his death
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Grief rose upon his ruddy brows. a tightening girdle grew
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Around his bosom like a bloody cord. in secret sobs
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He burst it, but next morn another girdle succeeds
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Around his bosom. Every day he viewd the fiery youth
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With silent fear & his immortal cheeks grew deadly pale
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Till many a morn & many a night passd over in dire woe
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Forming a girdle in the day & bursting it at night
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The girdle was formd by day by night was burst in twain
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Falling down on the rock an iron chain link by link lockd
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Enitharmon beheld the bloody chain of nights & days
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Depending from the bosom of Los & how with griding pain
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He went each morning to his labours. with the spectre dark
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Calld it the chain of jealousy. Now Los began to speak t713
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His woes aloud to Enitharmon. since he could not hide
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His uncouth plague. He siezd the boy in his immortal hands
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While Enitharmon followd him weeping in dismal woe
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Up to the iron mountains top & there the Jealous chain
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Fell from his bosom on the mountain. The Spectre dark
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Held the fierce boy Los naild him down binding around his limbs
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The accursed chain O how bright Enitharmon howld & cried
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Over her son. Obdurate Los bound down her loved joy
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The hammer of Urthona smote the rivets in terror. of brass
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Tenfold. the Demons rage flamd tenfold forth rending
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Roaring redounding. Loud Loud Loder & Louder & fird
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The darkness warring With the waves of Tharmas & Snows of Urizen
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Crackling the flames went up with fury from the immortal demon
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Surrounded with flames the Demon grew loud howling in his fires
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Los folded Enitharmon in a cold white cloud in fear
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Then led her down into the deeps & into his labyrinth
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Giving the Spectre sternest charge over the howling fiend
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Concenterd into Love of Parent Storgous Appetite Craving
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His limbs bound down mock at his chains for over them a flame
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Of circling fire unceasing plays to feed them with life & bring
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The virtues of the Eternal worlds ten thousand thousand spirits
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Of life lament around the Demon going forth & returning
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At his enormous call they flee into the heavens of heavens
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And back return with wine & food. Or dive into the deeps
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To bring the thrilling joys of sense to quell his ceaseless rage
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His eyes the lights of his large soul contract or else expand
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Contracted they behold the secrets of the infinite mountains
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The veins of gold & silver & the hidden things of Vala
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Whatever grows from its pure bud or breathes a fragrant soul
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Expanded they behold the terrors of the Sun & Moon
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The Elemental Planets & the orbs of eccentric fire
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His nostrils breathe a fiery flame. his locks are like the forests
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Of wild beasts there the lion glares the tyger & wolf howl there
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And there the Eagle hides her young in cliffs & precipices
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His bosom is like starry heaven expanded all the stars
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Sing round. there waves the harvest & the vintage rejoices. the Springs
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Flow into rivers of delight. there the spontaneous flowers
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Drink laugh & sing. the grasshopper the Emmet & the Fly
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The golden Moth builds there a house & spreads her silken bed
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His loins inwove with silken fires are like a furnace fierce
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As the strong Bull in summer time when bees sing round the heath
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Where the herds low after the shadow & after the water spring
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The numrous flocks cover the mountain & shine along the valley
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His knees are rocks of adamant & rubie & emerald
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Armed with spear & shield they drink & rejoice over the slain
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Such is the Demon such his terror in the nether deep
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But when returnd to Golgonooza Los & Enitharmon
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Felt all the sorrow Parents feel. they wept toward one another
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And Los repented that he had chaind Orc upon the mountain
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And Enitharmons tears prevaild parental love returnd
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Tho terrible his dread of that infernal chain They rose
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At midnight hasting to their much beloved care
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Nine days they traveld thro the Gloom of Entuthon Benithon
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Los taking Enitharmon by the hand led her along
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The dismal vales & up to the iron mountains top where Orc
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Howld in the furious wind he thought to give to Enitharmon
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Her son in tenfold joy & to compensate for her tears
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Even if his own death resulted so much pity him paind
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But when they came to the dark rock & to the spectrous cave
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Lo the young limbs had strucken root into the rock & strong
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Fibres had from the Chain of Jealousy inwove themselves
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In a swift vegetation round the rock & round the Cave
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And over the immortal limbs of the terrible fiery boy
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In vain they strove now to unchain. In vain with bitter tears
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To melt the chain of Jealousy. not Enitharmons death
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Nor the Consummation of Los could ever melt the chain
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Nor unroot the infernal fibres from their rocky bed
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Nor all Urthonas strength nor all the power of Luvahs Bulls
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Tho they each morning drag the unwilling Sun out of the deep
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Could uproot the infernal chain. for it had taken root t718
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Into the iron rock & grew a chain beneath the Earth
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Even to the Center wrapping round the Center & the limbs
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Of Orc entering with fibres. became one with him a living Chain
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Sustained by the Demons life. Despair & Terror & Woe & Rage
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Inwrap the Parents in cold clouds as they bend howling over
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The terrible boy till fainting by his side the Parents fell
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Not long they lay Urthonas spectre found herbs of the pit
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Rubbing their temples he reviv'd them. all their lamentations
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I write not here but all their after life was lamentation
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When satiated with grief they returnd back to Golgonooza t719
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Enitharmon on the road of Dranthon felt the inmost gate
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Of her bright heart burst open & again close with a deadly pain
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Within her heart Vala began to reanimate in bursting sobs t721
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And when the Gate was open she beheld that dreary Deep t722
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Where bright Ahania wept. She also saw the infernal roots
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Of the chain of Jealousy & felt the rendings of fierce howling Orc
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Rending the Caverns like a mighty wind pent in the Earth
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Tho wide apart as furthest north is from the furthest south
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Urizen trembled where he lay to hear the howling terror
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The rocks shook the Eternal bars tuggd to & fro were rifted
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Outstretchd upon the stones of ice the ruins of his throne
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Urizen shuddring heard his trembling limbs shook the strong caves
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The Woes of Urizen shut up in the deep dens of Urthona
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Ah how shall Urizen the King submit to this dark mansion
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Ah how is this! Once on the heights I stretchd my throne sublime
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The mountains of Urizen once of silver where the sons of wisdom dwelt
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And on whose tops the Virgins sag are rocks of Desolation
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My fountains once the haunt of Swans now breed the scaly tortoise
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The houses of my harpers are become a haunt of crows
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The gardens of wisdom are become a field of horrid graves
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And on the bones I drop my tears & water them in vain
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Once how I walked from my palace in gardens of delight
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The sons of wisdom stood around the harpers followd with harps
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Nine virgins clothd in light composd the song to their immortal voices
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And at my banquets of new wine my head was crownd with joy
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Then in my ivory pavilions I slumberd in the noon t724
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And walked in the silent night among sweet smelling flowers
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Till on my silver bed I slept & sweet dreams round me hoverd
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But now my land is darkend & my wise men are departed
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My songs are turned to cries of Lamentation t725
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Heard on my Mountains & deep sighs under my palace roofs
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Because the Steeds of Urizen once swifter than the light
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Were kept back from my Lord & from his chariot of mercies
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O did I keep the horses of the day in silver pastures
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O I refusd the Lord of day the horses of his prince
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O did I close my treasuries with roofs of solid stone
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And darken all my Palace walls with envyings & hate
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O Fool to think that I could hide from his all piercing eyes
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The gold & silver & costly stones his holy workmanship
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O Fool could I forget the light that filled my bright spheres
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Was a reflection of his face who calld me from the deep
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I well remember for I heard the mild & holy voice
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Saying O light spring up & shine & I sprang up from the deep
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He gave to me a silver scepter & crownd me with a golden crown
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& said Go forth & guide my Son who wanders on the ocean
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I went not forth. I hid myself in black clouds of my wrath
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I calld the stars around my feet in the night of councils dark
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The stars threw down their spears & fled naked away
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We fell. I siezd thee dark Urthona In my left hand falling
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I siezd thee beauteous Luvah thou art faded like a flower
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And like a lilly is thy wife Vala witherd by winds
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When thou didst bear the golden cup at the immortal tables
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Thy children smote their fiery wings crownd with the gold of heaven
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Thy pure feet stepd on the steps divine. too pure for other feet
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And thy fair locks shadowd thine eyes from the divine effulgence
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Then thou didst keep with Strong Urthona the living gates of heaven
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But now thou art bound down with him even to the gates of hell
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Because thou gavest Urizen the wine of the Almighty
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For steeds of Light that they might run in thy golden chariot of pride
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I gave to thee the Steeds I pourd the stolen wine
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And drunken with the immortal draught fell from my throne sublime
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I will arise Explore these dens & find that deep pulsation
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That shakes my caverns with strong shudders. perhaps this is the night
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Of Prophecy & Luvah hath burst his way from Enitharmon
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When Thought is closd in Caves. Then love shall shew its root in deepest
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