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THE FOUR ZOAS
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VALA
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Night the Ninth
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Being
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The Last Judgment
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And Los & Enitharmon builded Jerusalem weeping t959
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Over the Sepulcher & over the Crucified body
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Which to their Phantom Eyes appear'd still in the Sepulcher
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But Jesus stood beside them in the Spirit Separating
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Their Spirit from their body. Terrified at Non Existence
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For such they deemd the death of the body. Los his vegetable hands
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Outstretchd his right hand branching out in fibrous Strength
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Siezd the Sun. His left hand like dark roots coverd the Moon
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And tore them down cracking the heavens across from immense to immense
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Then fell the fires of Eternity with loud & shrill
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Sound of Loud Trumpet thundering along from heaven to heaven
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A mighty sound articulate Awake ye dead & come
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To judgment from the four winds Awake & Come away
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Folding like scrolls of the Enormous volume of Heaven & Earth
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With thunderous noise & dreadful shakings rocking to & fro
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The heavens are shaken & the Earth removed from its place
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The foundations of the Eternal hills discoverd
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The thrones of Kings are shaken they have lost their robes & crowns
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The poor smite their opressors they awake up to the harvest
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The naked warriors rush together down to the sea shore
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Trembling before the multitudes of slaves now set at liberty
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They are become like wintry flocks like forests stripd of leaves
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The opressed pursue like the wind there is no room for escape
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The Spectre of Enitharmon let loose on the troubled deep
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Waild shrill in the confusion & the Spectre of Urthona
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Recievd her in the darkning South their bodies lost they stood
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Trembling & weak a faint embrace a fierce desire as when
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Two shadows mingle on a wall they wail & shadowy tears
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Fell down & shadowy forms of joy mixd with despair & grief
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Their bodies buried in the ruins of the Universe
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Mingled with the confusion. Who shall call them from the Grave
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Rahab & Tirzah wail aloud in the wild flames they give up themselves
to Consummation
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The books of Urizen unroll with dreadful noise the folding Serpent
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Of Orc began to Consume in fierce raving fire his fierce flames
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Issud on all sides gathring strength in animating volumes
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Roaring abroad on all the winds raging intense reddening
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Into resistless pillars of fire rolling round & round gathering
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Strength from the Earths consumd & heavens & all hidden abysses
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Wherever the Eagle has Explord or Lion or Tyger trod
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Or where the Comets of the night or stars of [asterial] day
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Have shot their arrows or long beamed spears in wrath & fury
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And all the while the trumpet sounds from the clotted gore & from the
hollow den
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Start forth the trembling millions into flames of mental fire
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Bathing their limbs in the bright visions of Eternity
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Then like the doves from pillars of Smoke the trembling families
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Of women & children throughout every nation under heaven
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Cling round the men in bands of twenties & of fifties pale
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As snow that falls around a leafless tree upon the green
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Their opressors are falln they have Stricken them they awake to life
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Yet pale the just man stands erect & looking up to heavn
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Trembling & strucken by the Universal stroke the trees unroot
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The rocks groan horrible & run about. The mountains &
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Their rivers cry with a dismal cry the cattle gather together
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Lowing they kneel before the heavens. the wild beasts of the forests
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Tremble the Lion shuddering asks the Leopard. Feelest thou
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The dread I feel unknown before My voice refuses to roar
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And in weak moans I speak to thee This night
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Before the mornings dawn the Eagle calld the Vulture
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The Raven calld the hawk I heard them from my forests black
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Saying Let us go up far for soon I smell upon the wind
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A terror coming from the South. The Eagle & Hawk fled away
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At dawn & Eer the sun arose the ravel) & Vulture followd
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Let us flee also to the north. They fled. The Sons of Men
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Saw them depart in dismal droves. The trumpet sounded loud
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And all the Sons of Eternity Descended into Beulah
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In the fierce flames the limbs of Mystery lay consuming with howling
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And deep despair. Rattling go up the flames around the Synagogue
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Of Satan Loud the Serpent Orc ragd thro his twenty Seven
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Folds. The tree of Mystery went up in folding flames
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Blood issud out in mighty volumes pouring in whirlpools fierce
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From out the flood gates of the Sky The Gates are burst down pour
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The torrents black upon the Earth the blood pours down incessant
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Kings in their palaces lie drownd Shepherds their flocks their tents
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Roll down the mountains in black torrents Cities Villages
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High spires & Castles drownd in the black deluge Shoal on Shoal
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Float the dead carcases of Men & Beasts driven to & fro on waves
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Of foaming blood beneath the black incessant Sky till all
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Mysterys tyrants are cut off & not one left on Earth
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And when all Tyranny was cut off from the face of Earth
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Around the Dragon form of Urizen & round his stony form
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The flames rolling intense thro the wide Universe
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Began to Enter the Holy City Entring the dismal clouds t964
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In furrowd lightnings break their way the wild flames li[c]king up
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The Bloody Deluge living flames winged with intellect
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And Reason round the Earth they march in order flame by flame
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From the clotted gore & from the hollow den
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Start forth the trembling Millions into flames of mental fire
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Bathing their Limbs in the bright visions of Eternity
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Beyond this Universal Confusion beyond the remotest Pole t966
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Where their vortexes begin to operate there stands
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A Horrible rock far in the South it was forsaken when
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Urizen gave the horses of Light into the hands of Luvah
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On this rock lay the faded head of the Eternal Man
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Enwrapped round with weeds of death pale cold in sorrow & woe
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He lifts the blue lamps of his Eyes & cries with heavenly voice
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Bowing his head over the consuming Universe he cried
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O weakness & O weariness O war within my members
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My sons exiled from my breast pass to & fro before me
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My birds are silent on my hills flocks die beneath my branches
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My tents are fallen my trumpets & the sweet sounds of my harp
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Is silent on my clouded hills that belch forth storms & fires
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My milk of cows & honey of bees & fruit of golden harvest
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Are gatherd in the scorching heat & in the riving rain
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My robe is turned to confusion & my bright gold to stones
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Where once I sat I weary walk in misery & pain
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For from within my witherd breast grown narrow with my woes
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The Corn is turnd to thistles & the apples into poison
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The birds of song to murderous crows My joys to bitter groans
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The voices of children in my tents to cries of helpless infants
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And all exiled from the face of light & shine of morning
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In this dark world a narrow house I wander up & down
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I hear Mystery howling in these flames of Consummation
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When shall the Man of future times become as in days of old
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O weary life why sit I here & give up all my powers
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To indolence to the night of death when indolence & mourning
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Sit hovring over my dark threshold. tho I arise look out
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And scorn the war within my members yet my heart is weak
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And my head faint Yet will I look again unto the morning
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Whence is this sound of rage of Men drinking each others blood
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Drunk with the smoking gore & red but not with nourishing wine
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The Eternal Man sat on the Rocks & cried with awful voice
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O Prince of Light where art thou I behold thee not as once
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In those Eternal fields in clouds of morning stepping forth
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With harps & songs where bright Ahania sang before thy face
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And all thy sons & daughters gatherd round my ample table
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See you not all this wracking furious confusion
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Come forth from slumbers of thy cold abstraction come forth
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Arise to Eternal births shake off thy cold repose
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Schoolmaster of souls great opposer of change arise
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That the Eternal worlds may see thy face in peace & joy
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That thou dread form of Certainty maist sit in town & village
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While little children play around thy feet in gentle awe
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Fearing thy frown loving thy smile O Urizen Prince of light
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He calld[;] the deep buried his voice & answer none returnd
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Then wrath burst round the Eternal Man was wrath again he cried
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Arise O stony form of death O dragon of the Deeps
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Lie down before my feet O Dragon let Urizen arise
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O how couldst thou deform those beautiful proportions t968
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Of life & person for as the Person so is his life proportiond
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Let Luvah rage in the dark deep even to Consummation
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For if thou feedest not his rage it will subside in peace
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But if thou darest obstinate refuse my stern behest
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Thy crown & scepter I will sieze & regulate all my members
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In stern severity & cast thee out into the indefinite
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Where nothing lives, there to wander. & if thou returnst weary
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Weeping at the threshold of Existence I will steel my heart
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Against thee to Eternity & never recieve thee more
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Thy self-destroying beast formd Science shall be thy eternal lot
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My anger against thee is greater than against this Luvah
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For war is energy Enslavd but thy religion t970
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The first author of this war & the distracting of honest minds
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Into confused perturbation & strife & honour & pride
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Is a deceit so detestable that I will cast thee out
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If thou repentest not & leave thee as a rotten branch to be burnd
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With Mystery the Harlot & with Satan for Ever & Ever
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Error can never be redeemd in all Eternity
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But Sin Even Rahab is redeemd in blood & fury & jealousy
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That line of blood that stretchd across the windows of the morning
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Redeemd from Errors power. Wake thou dragon of the Deeps
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Urizen wept in the dark deep anxious his Scaly form
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To reassume the human & he wept in the dark deep
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Saying O that I had never drank the wine nor eat the bread
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Of dark mortality nor cast my view into futurity nor turnd
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My back darkning the present clouding with a cloud
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And building arches high & cities turrets & towers & domes
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Whose smoke destroyd the pleasant gardens & whose running Kennels
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Chokd the bright rivers burdning with my Ships the angry deep
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Thro Chaos seeking for delight & in spaces remote
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Seeking the Eternal which is always present to the wise
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Seeking for pleasure which unsought falls round the infants path
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And on the fleeces of mild flocks who neither care nor labour
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But I the labourer of ages whose unwearied hands
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Are thus deformd with hardness with the sword & with the spear
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And with the Chisel & the mallet I whose labours vast
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Order the nations separating family by family
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Alone enjoy not I alone in misery supreme
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Ungratified give all my joy unto this Luvah & Vala t975
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Then Go O dark futurity I will cast thee forth from these t976
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Heavens of my brain nor will I look upon futurity more t977
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I cast futurity away & turn my back upon that void t978
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Which I have made for lo futurity is in this moment t979
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Let Orc consume let Tharmas rage let dark Urthona give
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All strength to Los & Enitharmon & let Los self-cursd
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Rend down this fabric as a wall ruind & family extinct
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Rage Orc Rage Tharmas Urizen no longer curbs your rage
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So Urizen spoke he shook his snows from off his Shoulders & arose
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As on a Pyramid of mist his white robes scattering
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The fleecy white renewd he shook his aged mantles off
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Into the fires Then glorious bright Exulting in his joy
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He sounding rose into the heavens in naked majesty
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In radian Youth. when Lo like garlands in the Eastern sky
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When vocal may comes dancing from the East Ahania came
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Exulting in her flight as when a bubble rises up
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On to the surface of a lake. Ahania rose in joy
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Excess of joy is worse than grief--her heart beat high her blood
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Burst its bright Vessels She fell down dead at the feet of Urizen
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Outstretchd a Smiling corse they buried her in a silent cave
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Urizen dropt a tear the Eternal Man Darkend with sorrow
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The three daughters of Urizen Guard Ahanias Death couch
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Rising from the confusion in tears & howlings & despair
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Calling upon their fathers Name upon their Rivers dark
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And the Eternal Man Said Hear my words O Prince of Light t980
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Behold Jerusalem in whose bosom the Lamb of God
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Is seen tho slain before her Gates he self renewd remains
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Eternal & I thro him awake to life from deaths dark vale
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The times revolve the time is coming when all these delights
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Shall be renewd & all these Elements that now consume
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Shall reflourish. Then bright Ahania shall awake from death
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A glorious Vision to thine Eyes a Self renewing Vision t981
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The spring. the summer to be thine then Sleep the wintry days
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In silken garments spun by her own hands against her funeral
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The winter thou shalt plow & lay thy stores into thy barns
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Expecting to recieve Ahania in the spring with joy
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Immortal thou. Regenerate She & all the lovely Sex
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From her shall learn obedience & prepare for a wintry grave
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That spring may see them rise in tenfold joy & sweet delight
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Thus shall the male & female live the life of Eternity
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Because the Lamb of God Creates himself a bride & wife
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That we his Children evermore may live in Jerusalem
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Which now descendeth out of heaven a City yet a Woman
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Mother of myriads redeemd & born in her spiritual palaces
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By a New Spiritual birth Regenerated from Death
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Urizen Said. I have Erred & my Error remains with me
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What Chain encompasses in what Lock is the river of light confind
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That issues forth in the morning by measure & the evening by carefulness
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Where shall we take our stand to view the infinite & unbounded
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Or where are human feet for Lo our eyes are in the heavens
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He ceasd for rivn link from link the bursting Universe explodes
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All things reversd flew from their centers rattling bones
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To bones Join, shaking convulsd the shivering clay breathes
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Each speck of dust to the Earths center nestles round & round
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In pangs of an Eternal Birth in torment & awe & fear
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All spirits deceasd let loose from reptile prisons come in shoals
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Wild furies from the tygers brain & from the lions Eyes t984
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And from the ox & ass come moping terrors. from the Eagle
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And raven numerous as the leaves of Autumn every species
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Flock to the trumpet muttring over the sides of the grave & crying
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In the fierce wind round heaving rocks & mountains filld with groans
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On rifted rocks suspended in the air by inward fires
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Many a woful company & many on clouds & waters
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Fathers & friends Mothers & Infants Kings & Warriors
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Priests & chaind Captives met together in a horrible fear
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And every one of the dead appears as he had livd before
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And all the marks remain of the Slaves scourge & tyrants Crown
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And of the Priests oergorged Abdomen & of the merchants thin
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Sinewy deception & of the warriors ou[t]braving & thoughtlessness
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In lineaments too extended & in bones too strait & long
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They shew their wounds they accuse they sieze the opressor howlings began
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On the golden palace Songs & joy on the desart the Cold babe
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Stands in the furious air he cries the children of six thousand years
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Who died in infancy rage furious a mighty multitude rage furious
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Naked & pale standing on the expecting air to be deliverd
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Rend limb from limb the Warrior & the tyrant reuniting in pain
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The furious wind still rends around they flee in sluggish effort
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They beg they intreat in vain now they Listend not to intreaty
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They view the flames red rolling on thro the wide universe
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From the dark jaws of death beneath & desolate shores remote
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These covering Vaults of heaven & these trembling globes of Earth
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One Planet calls to another & one star enquires of another
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What flames are these coming from the South what noise what dreadful rout
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As of a battle in the heavens hark heard you not the trumpet
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As of fierce battle while they spoke the flames come on intense roaring
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They see him whom they have piercd they wail because of him
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They magnify themselves no more against Jerusalem Nor
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Against her little ones the innocent accused before the Judges
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Shines with immortal Glory trembling the Judge springs from his throne
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Hiding his face in the dust beneath the prisoners feet & saying
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Brother of Jesus what have I done intreat thy lord for me
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Perhaps I may be forgiven While he speaks the flames roll on
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And after the flames appears the Cloud of the Son of Man
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Descending from Jerusalem with power and great Glory
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All nations look up to the Cloud & behold him who was Crucified
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The Prisoner answers you scourgd my father to death before my face
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While I stood bound with cords & heavy chains, Your hipocrisy
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Shall now avail you nought. So speaking he dashd him with his foot
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The Cloud is Blood dazling upon the heavens & in the cloud
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Above upon its volumes is beheld a throne & a pavement
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Of precious stones. surrounded by twenty four venerable patriarchs
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And these again surrounded by four Wonders of the Almighty
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Incomprehensible. pervading all amidst & round about
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Fourfold each in the other reflected they are named Life's in Eternity.
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Four Starry Universes going forward from Eternity to Eternity
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And the Falln Man who was arisen upon the Rock of Ages
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Beheld the Vision of God & he arose up from the Rock
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And Urizen arose up with him walking thro the flames
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To meet the Lord coming to Judgment but the flames repelld them
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Still to the Rock in vain they strove to Enter the Consummation
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Together for the Redeemd Man could not enter the Consummation
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Then siezd the Sons of Urizen the Plow they polishd it
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From rust of ages all its ornaments of Gold & silver & ivory
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Reshone across the field immense where all the nations
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Darkend like Mould in the divided fallows where the weed
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Triumphs in its own destruction they took down the harness
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From the blue walls of heaven starry jingling ornamented
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With beautiful art the study of angels the workmanship of Demons
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When Heaven & Hell in Emulation strove in sports of Glory
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The noise of rural work resounded thro the heavens of heavens
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The horse[s] neigh from the battle the wild bulls from the sultry waste
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The tygers from the forests & the lions from the sandy desarts
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They sing they sieze the instruments of harmony they throw away
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The spear the bow the gun the mortar they level the fortifications
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They bet the iron engines of destruction into wedges
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They give them to Urthonas Sons ringing the hammers sound
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In dens of death to forge the spade the mattock & the ax
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The heavy roller to break the clods to pass over the nations
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The Sons of Urizen Shout Their father rose The Eternal horses
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Harnessd They calld to Urizen the heavens moved at their call
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The limbs of Urizen shone with ardor. He laid his ha[n]d on the Plow
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Thro dismal darkness drave the Plow of ages over Cities
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And all their Villages over Mountains & all their Vallies
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Over the graves & caverns of the dead Over the Planets
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And over the void Spaces over Sun & moon & star & constellation
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Then Urizen commanded & they brought the Seed of Men
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The trembling souls of All the Dead stood before Urizen
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Weak wailing in the troubled air East west & north & south
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He turnd the horses loose & laid his Plow in the northern corner
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Of the wide Universal field. then Stepd forth into the immense
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Then he began to sow the seed he girded round his loins
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With a bright girdle & his skirt filld with immortal souls
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Howling & Wailing fly the souls from Urizens strong hand
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For from the hand of Urizen the myriads fall like stars
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Into their own appointed places driven back by the winds
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The naked warriors rush together down to the sea shores
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They are become like wintry flocks like forests stripd of leaves
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The Kings & Princes of the Earth cry with a feeble cry
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Driven on the unproducing sands & on the hardend rocks
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And all the while the flames of Orc follow the ventrous feet
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Of Urizen & all the while the Trump of Tharmas sounds
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Weeping & wailing fly the souls from Urizens strong hand
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The daughters of Urizen stand with Cups & measures of foaming wine
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Immense upon the heavens with bread & delicate repasts
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Then follows the golden harrow in the midst of Mental fires
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To ravishing melody of flutes & harps & softest voice
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The seed is harrowd in while flames heat the black mould & cause
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The human harvest to begin Towards the south first sprang
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The myriads & in silent fear they look out from their graves
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Then Urizen sits down to rest & all his wearied Sons
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Take their repose on beds they drink they sing they view the flames
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Of Orc in joy they view the human harvest springing up
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A time they give to sweet repose till all the harvest is ripe
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And Lo like the harvest Moon Ahania cast off her death clothes
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She folded them up in care in silence & her brightning limbs
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Bathd in the clear spring of the rock then from her darksom cave
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Issud in majesty divine Urizen rose up from his couch
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On wings of tenfold joy clapping his hands his feet his radiant wings
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In the immense as when the Sun dances upon the mountains
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A shout of jubilee in lovely notes responding from daughter to daughter
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From son to Son as if the Stars beaming innumerable
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Thro night should sing soft warbling filling Earth & heaven
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And bright Ahania took her seat by Urizen in songs & joy
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The Eternal Man also sat down upon the Couches of Beulah
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Sorrowful that he could not put off his new risen body
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In mental flames the flames refusd they drove him back to Beulah
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His body was redeemd to be permanent thro Mercy Divine
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And now fierce Orc had quite consumd himself in Mental flames
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Expending all his energy against the fuel of fire
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The Regenerate Man stoopd his head over the Universe & in
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His holy hands recied the flaming Demon & Demoness of Smoke
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And gave them to Urizens hands the Immortal frownd Saying
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Luvah & Vala henceforth you are Servants obey & live
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You shall forget your former state return O Love in peace t998
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Into your place the place of seed not in the brain or heart
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If Gods combine against Man Setting their Dominion above
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The Human form Divine. Thrown down from their high Station
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In the Eternal heavens of Human Imagination: buried beneath
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In dark Oblivion with incessant pangs ages on ages
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In Enmity & war first weakend then in stern repentance
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They must renew their brightness & their disorganizd functions
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Again reorganize till they resume the image of the human
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Cooperating in the bliss of Man obeying his Will
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Servants to the infinite & Eternal of the Human form
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Luvah & Vala descended & enterd the Gates of Dark Urthona
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And walkd from the hands of Urizen in the shadows of Valas Garden
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Where the impressions of Despair & Hope for ever vegetate
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In flowers in fruits in fishes birds & beasts & clouds & waters
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The land of doubts & shadows sweet delusions unformd hopes
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They saw no more the terrible confusion of the wracking universe
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They heard not saw not felt not all the terrible confusion
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For in their orbed senses within closd up they wanderd at will
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And those upon the Couches viewd them in the dreams of Beulah
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As they reposd from the terrible wide universal harvest
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Invisible Luvah in bright clouds hoverd over Valas head
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And thus their ancient golden age renewd for Luvah spoke
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With voice mild from his golden Cloud upon the breath of morning
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Come forth O Vala from the grass & from the silent Dew
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Rise from the dews of death for the Eternal Man is Risen
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She rises among flowers & looks toward the Eastern clearness
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She walks yea runs her feet are wingd on the tops of the bending grass
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Her garments rejoice in the vocal wind & her hair glistens with dew
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She answerd thus Whose voice is this in the voice of the nourishing air
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In the spirit of the morning awaking the Soul from its grassy bed
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Where dost thou dwell for it is thee I seek & but for thee
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I must have slept Eternally nor have felt the dew of thy morning
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Look how the opening dawn advances with vocal harmony
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Look how the beams foreshew the rising of some glorious power
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The sun is thine he goeth forth in his majestic brightness
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O thou creating voice that callest & who shall answer thee
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Where dost thou flee O fair one where dost thou seek thy happy place
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To yonder brightness there I haste for sure I came from thence
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Or I must have slept eternally nor have felt the dew of morning
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Eternally thou must have slept nor have felt the morning dew
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But for yon nourishing sun tis that by which thou art arisen
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The birds adore the sun the beasts rise up & play in his beams
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And every flower & every leaf rejoices in his light
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Then O thou fair one sit thee down for thou art as the grass
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Thou risest in the dew of morning & at night art folded up
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Alas am I but as a flower then will I sit me down
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Then will I weep then Ill complain & sigh for immortality
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And chide my maker thee O Sun that raisedst me to fall
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So saying she sat down & wept beneath the apple trees
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O be thou blotted out thou Sun that raisedst me to trouble
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That gavest me a heart to crave & raisedst me thy phantom
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To feel thy heat & see thy light & wander here alone
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Hopeless if I am like the grass & so shall pass away
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Rise sluggish Soul why sitst thou here why dost thou sit & weep
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Yon Sun shall wax old & decay but thou shalt ever flourish
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The fruit shall ripen & fall down & the flowers consume away
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But thou shalt still survive arise O dry thy dewy tears
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Hah! Shall I still survive whence came that sweet & comforting voice
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And whence that voice of sorrow O sun thou art nothing now to me
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Go on thy course rejoicing & let us both rejoice together
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I walk among his flocks & hear the bleating of his lambs
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O that I could behold his face & follow his pure feet
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I walk by the footsteps of his flocks come hither tender flocks
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Can you converse with a pure Soul that seeketh for her maker
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You answer not then am I set your mistress in this garden
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Ill watch you & attend your footsteps you are not like the birds
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That Sing & fly in the bright air but you do lick my feet
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And let me touch your wooly backs follow me as I sing
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For in my bosom a new song arises to my Lord
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Rise up O Sun most glorious minister & light of day
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Flow on ye gentle airs & bear the voice of my rejoicing
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Wave freshly clear waters flowing around the tender grass
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And thou sweet smelling ground put forth thy life in fruits & flowers
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Follow me O my flocks & hear me sing my rapturous Song
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I will cause my voice to be heard on the clouds that glitter in the sun
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I will call & who shall answer me I will sing who shall reply
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For from my pleasant hills behold the living living springs
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Running among my green pastures delighting among my trees
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I am not here alone my flocks you are my brethren
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And you birds that sing & adorn the sky you are my sisters
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I sing & you reply to my Song I rejoice & you are glad
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Follow he O my flocks we will now descend into the valley
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O how delicious are the grapes flourishing in the Sun
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How clear the spring of the rock running among the golden sand
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How cool the breezes of the vall[e]y & the arms of the branchy trees
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Cover us from the Sun come & let us sit in the Shade
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My Luvah here hath placd me in a Sweet & pleasant Land
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And given me fruits & pleasant waters & warm hills & cool valleys
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Here will I build myself a house & here Ill call on his name
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Here Ill return when I am weary & take my pleasant rest
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So spoke the Sinless Soul & laid her head on the downy fleece
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Of a curld Ram who stretchd himself in sleep beside his mistress
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And soft sleep fell upon her eyelids in the silent noon of day
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Then Luvah passed by & saw the sinless Soul
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And said Let a pleasant house arise to be the dwelling place
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Of this immortal Spirit growing in lower Paradise
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He spoke & pillars were builded & walls as white as ivory
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The grass she slept upon was pavd with pavement as of pearl
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Beneath her rose a downy bed & a cieling coverd all
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Vala awoke. When in the pleasant gates of sleep I enterd
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I saw my Luvah like a spirit stand in the bright air
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Round him stood spirits like me who reard me a bright house
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And here I see thee house remain in my most pleasant world
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My Luvah smild I kneeled down he laid his hand on my head
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And when he laid his hand upon me from the gates of sleep I came
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Into this bodily house to tend my flocks in my pleasant garden
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So saying she arose & walked round her beautiful house
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And then from her white door she lookd to see her bleating lambs
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But her flocks were gone up from beneath the trees into the hills
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I see the hand that leadeth me doth also lead my flocks
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She went up to her flocks & turned oft to see her shining house
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She stopd to drink of the clear spring & eat the grapes & apples
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She bore the fruits in her lap she gatherd flowers for her bosom
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She called to her flocks saying follow me O my flocks
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They followd her to the silent vall[e]y beneath the spreading trees
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And on the rivers margin she ungirded her golden girdle
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She stood in the river & viewd herself within the watry glass
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And her bright hair was wet with the waters She rose up from the river
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And as she rose her Eyes were opend to the world of waters
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She saw Tharmas sitting upon the rocks beside the wavy sea
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He strokd the water from his beard & mournd faint thro the summer vales
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And Vala stood on the rocks of Tharmas & heard his mournful voice
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O Enion my weary head is in the bed of death
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For weeds of death have wrapd around my limbs in the hoary deeps
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I sit in the place of shells & mourn & thou art closd in clouds
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When will the time of Clouds be past & the dismal night of Tharmas
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Arise O Enion Arise & smile upon my head t1001
FZ9-129.25; E398|
As thou dost smile upon the barren mountains and they rejoice
FZ9-129.26; E398|
When wilt thou smile on Tharmas O thou bringer of golden day
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Arise O Enion arise for Lo I have calmd my seas
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So saying his faint head he laid upon the Oozy rock
FZ9-129.29; E398|
And darkness coverd all the deep the light of Enion faded
FZ9-129.30; E398|
Like a fa[i]nt flame quivering upon the surface of the darkness
FZ9-129.31; E398|
Then Vala lifted up her hands to heaven to call on Enion
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She calld but none could answer her & the Eccho of her voice returnd
FZ9-129.33; E398|
Where is the voice of God that calld me from the silent dew
FZ9-129.34; E398|
Where is the Lord of Vala dost thou hide in clefts of the rock
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Why shouldst thou hide thyself from Vala from the soul that wanders desolate
FZ9-129.36; E398|
She ceas'd & light beamd round her like the glory of the morning
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And She arose out of the river & girded on her golden girdle
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And now her feet step on the grassy bosom of the ground
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Among her flocks & she turnd her eyes toward her pleasant house
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And saw in the door way beneath the trees two little children playing
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She drew near to her house & her flocks followd her footsteps
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The Children clung around her knees she embracd them & wept over them
FZ9-130.7; E398|
Thou little Boy art Tharmas & thou bright Girl Enion
FZ9-130.8; E398|
How are ye thus renewd & brought into the Gardens of Vala
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She embracd them in tears. till the sun descended the western hills
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And then she enterd her bright house leading her mighty children
FZ9-130.11; E399|
And when night came the flocks laid round the house beneath the trees
FZ9-130.12; E399|
She laid the Children on the beds which she saw prepard in the house
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Then last herself laid down & closd her Eyelids in soft slumbers
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And in the morning when the Sun arose in the crystal sky
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Vala awoke & calld the children from their gentle slumbers
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Awake O Enion awake & let thine innocent Eyes
FZ9-130.17; E399|
Enlighten all the Crystal house of Vala awake awake
FZ9-130.18; E399|
Awake Tharmas awake awake thou child of dewy tears
FZ9-130.19; E399|
Open the orbs of thy blue eyes & smile upon my gardens
FZ9-130.20; E399|
The Children woke & smild on Vala. she kneeld by the golden couch
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She presd them to her bosom & her pearly tears dropd down
FZ9-130.22; E399|
O my sweet Children Enion let Tharmas kiss thy Cheek
FZ9-130.23; E399|
Why dost thou turn thyself away from his sweet watry eyes
FZ9-130.24; E399|
Tharmas henceforth in Valas bosom thou shalt find sweet peace
FZ9-130.25; E399|
O bless the lovely eyes of Tharmas & the Eyes of Enion
FZ9-130.26; E399|
They rose they went out wandring sometimes together sometimes alone
FZ9-13.27; E399|
Why weepest thou Tharmas Child of tears in the bright house of joy
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Doth Enion avoid the sight of thy blue heavenly Eyes
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And dost thou wander with my lambs & wet their innocent faces
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With thy bright tears because the steps of Enion are in the gardens
FZ9-130.31; E399|
Arise sweet boy & let us follow the path of Enion
FZ9-130.32; E399|
So saying they went down into the garden among the fruits
FZ9-130.33; E399|
And Enion sang among the flowers that grew among the trees
FZ9-130.34; E399|
And Vala said Go Tharmas weep not Go to Enion
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He said O Vala I am sick & all this garden of Pleasure
FZ9-131.2; E399|
Swims like a dream before my eyes but the sweet smelling fruit
FZ9-131.3; E399|
Revives me to new deaths I fade even like a water lilly
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In the suns heat till in the night on the couch of Enion
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I drink new life & feel the breath of sleeping Enion
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But in the morning she arises to avoid my Eyes
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Then my loins fade & in the house I sit me down & weep
FZ9-131.8; E399|
Chear up thy Countenance bright boy & go to Enion
FZ9-131.9; E399|
Tell her that Vala waits her in the shadows of her garden
FZ9-131.10; E399|
He went with timid steps & Enion like the ruddy morn
FZ9-131.11; E399|
When infant spring appears in swelling buds & opening flowers
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Behind her Veil withdraws so Enion turnd her modest head
FZ9-131.13; E399|
But Tharmas spoke Vala seeks thee sweet Enion in the shades
FZ9-131.14; E399|
Follow the steps of Tharmas O thou brightness of the gardens
FZ9-131.15; E399|
He took her hand reluctant she followd in infant doubts
FZ9-131.16; E400|
Thus in Eternal Childhood straying among Valas flocks
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In infant sorrow & joy alternate Enion & Tharmas playd
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Round Vala in the Gardens of Vala & by her rivers margin
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They are the shadows of Tharmas & of Enion in Valas world
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And the sleepers who rested from their harvest work beheld theseOAthese
visions
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Thus were the sleepers entertaind upon the Couches of Beulah
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When Luvah & Vala were closd up in their world of shadowy forms
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Darkness was all beneath the heavens only a little light
FZ9-131.24; E400|
Such as glows out from sleeping spirits appeard in the deeps beneath
FZ9-131.25; E400|
As when the wind sweeps over a Corn field the noise of souls
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Thro all the immense borne down by Clouds swagging in autumnal heat
FZ9-131.27; E400|
Muttering along from heaven to heaven hoarse roll the human forms
FZ9-131.28; E400|
Beneath thick clouds dreadful lightnings burst & thunders roll
FZ9-131.29; E400|
Down pour the torrent Floods of heaven on all the human harvest
FZ9-131.30; E400|
Then Urizen sitting at his repose on beds in the bright South
FZ9-131.31; E400|
Cried Times are Ended he Exulted he arose in joy he exulted
FZ9-131.32; E400|
He pourd his light & all his Sons & daughters pourd their light
FZ9-131.33; E400|
To exhale the spirits of Luvah & Vala thro the atmosphere
FZ9-131.34; E400|
And Luvah & Vala saw the Light their spirits were Exhald
FZ9-131.35; E400|
In all their ancient innocence the floods depart the clouds
FZ9-131.36; E400|
Dissipate or sink into the Seas of Tharmas Luvah sat
FZ9-131.37; E400|
Above in the bright heavens in peace. the Spirits of Men beneath
FZ9-131.38; E400|
Cried out to be deliverd & the Spirit of Luvah wept
FZ9-131.39; E400|
Over the human harvest & over Vala the sweet wanderer
FZ9-131.40; E400|
In pain the human harvest wavd in horrible groans of woe
FZ9-132.1; E400|
The Universal Groan went up the Eternal Man was Darkend
FZ9-132.2; E400|
Then Urizen arose & took his Sickle in his hand
FZ9-132.3; E400|
There is a brazen sickle & a scythe of iron hid
FZ9-132.4; E400|
Deep in the South guarded by a few solitary stars
FZ9-132.5; E400|
This sickle Urizen took the scythe his sons embracd
FZ9-132.6; E400|
And went forth & began to reap & all his joyful sons
FZ9-132.7; E400|
Reapd the wide Universe & bound in Sheaves a wondrous harvest
FZ9-132.8; E400|
They took them into the wide barns with loud rejoicings & triumph
FZ9-132.9; E400|
Of flute & harp & drum & trumpet horn & clarion
FZ9-132.10; E400|
The feast was spread in the bright South& the Regenerate Man
FZ9-132.11; E400|
Sat at the feast rejoicing & the wine of Eternity
FZ9-132.12; E400|
Was servd round by the flames of Luvah all Day & all the Night
FZ9-132.13; E400|
And when Morning began to dawn upon the distant hills
FZ9-132.14; E400|
a whirlwind rose up in the Center & in the Whirlwind a shriek
t1003
FZ9-132.15; E400|
And in the Shriek a rattling of bones & in the rattling of bones
FZ9-132.16; E400|
A dolorous groan & from the dolorous groan in tears
FZ9-132.17; E400|
Rose Enion like a gentle light & Enion spoke saying
FZ9-132.18; E401|
O Dreams of Death the human form dissolving companied
FZ9-132.19; E401|
By beasts & worms & creeping things & darkness & despair
t1004
FZ9-132.20; E401|
The clouds fall off from my wet brow the dust from my cold limbs
FZ9-132.21; E401|
Into the Sea of Tharmas Soon renewd a Golden Moth
FZ9-132.22; E401|
I shall cast off my death clothes & Embrace Tharmas again
FZ9-132.23; E401|
For Lo the winter melted away upon the distant hills
FZ9-132.24; E401|
And all the black mould sings. She speaks to her infant race her milk
FZ9-132.25; E401|
Descends down on the sand. the thirsty sand drinks & rejoices
t1005
FZ9-132.26; E401|
Wondering to behold the Emmet the Grasshopper the jointed worm
FZ9-132.27; E401|
The roots shoot thick thro the solid rocks bursting their way
FZ9-132.28; E401|
They cry out in joys of existence. the broad stems
FZ9-132.29; E401|
Rear on the mountains stem after stem the scaly newt creeps
FZ9-132.30; E401|
From the stone & the armed fly springs from the rocky crevice
FZ9-132.31; E401|
The spider. The bat burst from the hardend slime crying
FZ9-132.32; E401|
To one another what are we & whence is our joy & delight
FZ9-132.33; E401|
Lo the little moss begins to spring & the tender weed
FZ9-132.34; E401|
Creeps round our secret nest. Flocks brighten the Mountains
FZ9-132.35; E401|
Herds throng up the Valley wild beasts fill the forests
FZ9-132.36; E401|
Joy thrilld thro all the Furious form of Tharmas humanizing
FZ9-132.37; E401|
Mild he Embracd her whom he sought he raisd her thro the heavens
FZ9-132.38; E401|
Sounding his trumpet to awake the Dead on high he soard
FZ9-132.39; E401|
Over the ruind worlds the smoking tomb of the Eternal Prophet
FZ9-133.1; E401|
The Eternal Man arose he welcomd them to the Feast
FZ9-133.2; E401|
The feast was spread in the bright South & the Eternal Man
FZ9-133.3; E401|
Sat at the feast rejoicing & the wine of Eternity
FZ9-133.4; E401|
Was servd round by the flames of Luvah all day & all the night
FZ9-133.5; E401|
And Many Eternal Men sat at the golden feast to see
FZ9-133.6; E401|
The female form now separate They shudderd at the horrible thing
FZ9-133.7; E401|
Not born for the sport and amusement of Man but born to drink up all his
powers
FZ9-133.8; E401|
They wept to see their shadows they said to one another this is Sin
t1006
FZ9-133.9; E401|
This is the Generative world they rememberd the Days of old t1007
FZ9-133.10; E401|
And One of the Eternals spoke All was silent at the feast
FZ9-133.11; E401|
Man is a Worm wearied with joy he seeks the caves of sleep
FZ9-133.12; E401|
Among the Flowers of Beulah in his Selfish cold repose
FZ9-133.13; E401|
Forsaking Brotherhood & Universal love in selfish clay
FZ9-133.14; E401|
Folding the pure wings of his mind seeking the places dark
FZ9-133.15; E401|
Abstracted from the roots of Science then inclosd around t1008
FZ9-133.16; E401|
In walls of Gold we cast him like a Seed into the Earth
FZ9-133.17; E401|
Till times & spaces have passd over him duly every morn
FZ9-133.18; E401|
We visit him covering with a Veil the immortal seed
FZ9-133.19; E401|
With windows from the inclement sky we cover him & with walls
FZ9-133.20; E401|
And hearths protect the Selfish terror till divided all
FZ9-133.21; E402|
In families we see our shadows born. & thence we know | Ephesians
FZ9-133.22; E402|
That Man subsists by Brotherhood & Universal Love |iii c.
FZ9-133.23; E402|
We fall on one anothers necks more closely we embrace | 10 v
FZ9-133.24; E402|
Not for ourselves but for the Eternal family we live
FZ9-133.25; E402|
Man liveth not by Self alone but in his brothers face
FZ9-133.26; E402|
Each shall behold the Eternal Father & love & joy abound
FZ9-133.27; E402|
So spoke the Eternal at the Feast they embracd the New born Man
FZ9-133.28; E402|
Calling hi Brother image of the Eternal Father. they sat down
FZ9-133.29; E402|
At the immortal tables sounding loud their instruments of joy
FZ9-133.30; E402|
Calling the Morning into Beulah the Eternal Man rejoicd
FZ9-133.31; E402|
When Morning dawnd The Eternals rose to labour at the Vintage
FZ9-133.32; E402|
Beneath they saw their sons & daughters wondering inconcievable
FZ9-133.33; E402|
At the dark myriads in Shadows in the worlds beneath
FZ9-133.34; E402|
The morning dawnd Urizen rose & in his hand the Flail
FZ9-133.35; E402|
Sounds on the Floor heard terrible by all beneath the heavens
FZ9-133.36; E402|
Dismal loud redounding the nether floor shakes with the sound
FZ9-134.1; E402|
And all Nations were threshed out & the stars threshd from their husks
FZ9-134.2; E402|
Then Tharmas took the Winnowing fan the winnowing wind furious
FZ9-134.3; E402|
Above veerd round by the violent whirlwind driven west & south
FZ9-134.4; E402|
Tossed the Nations like Chaff into the seas of Tharmas
FZ9-134.5; E402|
O Mystery Fierce Tharmas cries Behold thy end is come
FZ9-134.6; E402|
Art thou she that made the nations drunk with the cup of Religion
FZ9-134.7; E402|
Go down ye Kings & Councellors & Giant Warriors
FZ9-134.8; E402|
Go down into the depths go down & hide yourselves beneath
FZ9-134.9; E402|
Go down with horse & Chariots & Trumpets of hoarse war
FZ9-134.10; E402|
Lo how the Pomp of Mystery goes down into the Caves
FZ9-134.11; E402|
Her great men howl & throw the dust & rend their hoary hair
FZ9-134.12; E402|
Her delicate women & children shriek upon the bitter wind
FZ9-134.13; E402|
Spoild of their beauty their hair rent & their skin shriveld up
FZ9-134.14; E402|
Lo darkness covers the long pomp of banners on the wind
FZ9-134.15; E402|
And black horses & armed men & miserable bound captives
FZ9-134.16; E402|
Where shall the graves recieve them all & where shall be their place
FZ9-134.17; E402|
And who shall mourn for Mystery who never loosd her Captives
FZ9-134.18; E402|
Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the field
FZ9-134.19; E402|
Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air
FZ9-134.20; E402|
Let the inchaind soul shut up in darkness & in sighing
FZ9-134.21; E402|
Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years
FZ9-134.22; E402|
Rise & look out his chains are loose his dungeon doors are open
FZ9-134.23; E402|
And let his wife & children return from the opressors scourge
FZ9-134.24; E402|
They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream
FZ9-134.25; E402|
Are these the Slaves that groand along the streets of Mystery
FZ9-134.26; E402|
Where are your bonds & task masters are these the prisoners
FZ9-134.27; E403|
Where are your chains where are your tears why do you look around
FZ9-134.28; E403|
If you are thirsty there is the river go bathe your parched limbs
FZ9-134.29; E403|
The good of all the Land is before you for Mystery is no more
FZ9-134.30; E403|
Then All the Slaves from every Earth in the wide Universe
FZ9-134.31; E403|
Sing a New Song drowning confusion in its happy notes
FZ9-134.32; E403|
While the flail of Urizen sounded loud & the winnowing wind of Tharmas
FZ9-134.33; E403|
So loud so clear in the wide heavens & the song that they sung was
this
FZ9-134.34; E403|
Composed by an African Black from the little Earth of Sotha
FZ9-134.35; E403|
Aha Aha how came I here so soon in my sweet native land t1009
FZ9-134.36; E403|
How came I here Methinks I am as I was in my youth
FZ9-135.1; E403|
When in my fathers house I sat & heard his chearing voice
FZ9-135.2; E403|
Methinks I see his flocks & herds & feel my limbs renewd
FZ9-135.3; E403|
And Lo my Brethren in their tents & their little ones around them
FZ9-135.4; E403|
The song arose to the Golden feast the Eternal Man rejoicd
FZ9-135.5; E403|
Then the Eternal Man said Luvah the Vintage is ripe arise
FZ9-135.6; E403|
The sons of Urizen shall gather the vintage with sharp hooks
FZ9-135.7; E403|
And all thy sons O Luvah bear away the families of Earth
FZ9-135.8; E403|
I hear the flail of Urizen his barns are full no roo[m]
FZ9-135.9; E403|
Remains & in the Vineyards stand the abounding sheaves beneath
FZ9-135.10; E403|
The falling Grapes that odorous burst upon the winds. Arise
FZ9-135.11; E403|
My flocks & herds trample the Corn my cattle browze upon
FZ9-135.12; E403|
The ripe Clusters The shepherds shout for Luvah prince of Love
FZ9-135.13; E403|
Let the Bulls of Luvah tread the Corn & draw the loaded waggon
FZ9-135.14; E403|
Into the Barn while children glean the Ears around the door
FZ9-135.15; E403|
Then shall they lift their innocent hands & stroke his furious nose
FZ9-135.16; E403|
And he shall lick the little girls white neck & on her head
FZ9-135.17; E403|
Scatter the perfume of his breath while from his mountains high
FZ9-135.18; E403|
The lion of terror shall come down & bending his bright mane
FZ9-135.19; E403|
And couching at their side shall eat from the curld boys white lap
FZ9-135.20; E403|
His golden food and in the evening sleep before the Door
FZ9-135.21; E403|
Attempting to be more than Man We become less said Luvah
FZ9-135.22; E403|
As he arose from the bright feast drunk with the wine of ages
FZ9-135.23; E403|
His crown of thorns fell from his head he hung his living Lyre
FZ9-135.24; E403|
Behind the seat of the Eternal Man & took his way
FZ9-135.25; E403|
Sounding the Song of Los descending to the Vineyards bright
FZ9-135.26; E403|
His sons arising from the feast with golden baskets follow
FZ9-135.27; E403|
A fiery train as when the Sun sings in the ripe vineyards
FZ9-135.28; E403|
Then Luvah stood before the wine press all his fiery sons
FZ9-135.29; E403|
Brought up the loaded Waggons with shoutings ramping tygers play
FZ9-135.30; E403|
In the jingling traces furious lions sound the song of joy
FZ9-135.31; E403|
To the golden wheels circling upon the pavement of heaven & all
FZ9-135.32; E403|
The Villages of Luvah ring the golden tiles of the villages
FZ9-135.33; E404|
Reply to violins & tabors to the pipe flute lyre & cymbal
FZ9-135.34; E404|
Then fell the Legions of Mystery in maddning confusion
FZ9-135.35; E404|
Down Down thro the immense with outcry fury & despair
FZ9-135.36; E404|
Into the wine presses of Luvah howling fell the Clusters
FZ9-135.37; E404|
Of human families thro the deep. the wine presses were filld
FZ9-135.38; E404|
The blood of life flowd plentiful Odors of life arose
FZ9-135.39; E404|
All round the heavenly arches & the Odors rose singing this song
t1010
FZ9-136.1; E404|
O terrible wine presses of Luvah O caverns of the Grave
FZ9-136.2; E404|
How lovely the delights of those risen again from death
FZ9-136.3; E404|
O trembling joy excess of joy is like Excess of grief
FZ9-136.4; E404|
So sang the Human Odors round the wine presses of Luvah
FZ9-136.5; E404|
But in the Wine presses is wailing terror & despair
FZ9-136.6; E404|
Forsaken of their Elements they vanish & are no more
FZ9-136.7; E404|
No more but a desire of Being a distracted ravening desire
FZ9-136.8; E404|
Desiring like the hungry worm & like the gaping grave t1011
FZ9-136.9; E404|
They plunge into the Elements the Elements cast them forth
FZ9-136.10; E404|
Or else consume their shadowy semblance Yet they obstinate
FZ9-136.11; E404|
Tho pained to distraction Cry O let us Exist for
FZ9-136.12; E404|
This dreadful Non Existence is worse than pains of Eternal Birth
t1012
FZ9-136.13; E404|
Eternal Death who can Endure. let us consume in fires
FZ9-136.14; E404|
In waters stifling or in air corroding or in earth shut up
FZ9-136.15; E404|
The Pangs of Eternal birth are better than the Pangs of Eternal Death
FZ9-136.16; E404|
How red the Sons & Daughters of Luvah how they tread the Grapes
FZ9-136.17; E404|
Laughing & shouting drunk with odors many fall oerwearied
FZ9-136.18; E404|
Drownd in the wine is many a youth & maiden those around
FZ9-136.19; E404|
Lay them on skins of tygers or the spotted Leopard or wild Ass
FZ9-136.20; E404|
Till they revive or bury them in cool Grots making lamentation
FZ9-136.21; E404|
But in the Wine Presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor dance
FZ9-136.22; E404|
They howl & writhe in shoals of torment in fierce flames consuming
FZ9-136.23; E404|
In chains of iron & in dungeons circled with ceaseless fires
FZ9-136.24; E404|
In pits & dens & shades of death in shapes of torment & woe
FZ9-136.25; E404|
The Plates the Screws and Racks & Saws & cords & fires &
floods t1013
FZ9-136.26; E404|
The cruel joy of Luvahs daughters lacerating with knives
FZ9-136.27; E404|
And whip[s] their Victims & the deadly sports of Luvahs Sons
t1014
FZ9-136.28; E404|
Timbrels & Violins sport round the Wine Presses The little Seed
FZ9-136.29; E404|
The Sportive root the Earthworm the small beetle the wise Emmet
FZ9-136.30; E404|
Dance round the Wine Presses of Luvah. the Centipede is there
FZ9-136.31; E404|
The ground Spider with many Eyes the Mole clothed in Velvet
FZ9-136.32; E404|
The Earwig armd the tender maggot emblem of Immortality
FZ9-136.33; E404|
The Slow Slug the grasshopper that sings & laughs & drinks
FZ9-136.34; E404|
The winter comes he folds his slender bones without a murmur
FZ9-136.35; E404|
There is the Nettle that stings with soft down & there
t1015
FZ9-136.36; E405|
The indignant Thistle whose bitterness is bred in his milk
FZ9-136.37; E405|
And who lives on the contempt of his neighbour there all the idle weeds
FZ9-136.38; E405|
That creep about the obscure places shew their various limbs
FZ9-136.39; E405|
Naked in all their beauty dancing round the Wine Presses
FZ9-136.40; E405|
They Dance around the Dying & they Drink the howl & groan
FZ9-137.1; E405|
They catch the Shrieks in cups of gold they hand them to one another
FZ9-137.2; E405|
These are the sports of love & these the sweet delights of amorous
play
FZ9-137.3; E405|
Tears of the grapes the death sweat of the Cluster the last sigh
FZ9-137.4; E405|
Of the mild youth who listens to the luring songs of Luvah
FZ9-137.5; E405|
The Eternal Man darkend with Sorrow & a wintry mantle
FZ9-137.6; E405|
Coverd the Hills He said O Tharmas rise & O Urthona
FZ9-137.7; E405|
Then Tharmas & Urthona rose from the Golden feast satiated
FZ9-137.8; E405|
With Mirth & joy Urthona limping from his fall on Tharmas leand
FZ9-137.9; E405|
In his right hand his hammer Tharmas held his Shepherds crook
FZ9-137.10; E405|
Beset with gold gold were the ornaments formed by the sons of Urizen
FZ9-137.11; E405|
Then Enion & Ahania & Vala & the wife of Dark Urthona
FZ9-137.12; E405|
Rose from the feast in joy ascending to their Golden Looms
FZ9-137.13; E405|
There the wingd shuttle Sang the spindle & the distaff & the Reel
FZ9-137.14; E405|
Rang sweet the praise of industry. Thro all the golden rooms
FZ9-137.15; E405|
Heaven rang with winged Exultation All beneath howld loud
FZ9-137.16; E405|
With tenfold rout & desolation roard the Chasms beneath
FZ9-37.17; E405|
Where the wide woof flowd down & where the Nations are gatherd together
FZ9-137.18; E405|
Tharmas went down to the Wine presses & beheld the sons & daughters
FZ9-137.19; E405|
Of Luvah quite exhausted with the Labour & quite filld
FZ9-137.20; E405|
With new wine. that they began to torment one another and to tread
FZ9-137.21; E405|
The weak. Luvah & Vala slept on the floor o'erwearied
FZ9-137.22; E405|
Urthona calld his Sons around him Tharmas calld his sons
FZ9-137.23; E405|
Numrous. they took the wine they separated the Lees
FZ9-137.24; E405|
And Luvah was put for dung on the ground by the Sons of Tharmas & Urthona
FZ9-137.25; E405|
They formed heavens of sweetest wo[o]d[s] of gold & silver & ivory
FZ9-137.26; E405|
Of glass & precious stones They loaded all the waggons of heaven
FZ9-137.27; E405|
And took away the wine of ages with solemn songs & joy
FZ9-137.28; E405|
Luvah & Vala woke & all the sons & daughters of Luvah
FZ9-137.29; E405|
Awoke they wept to one another & they reascended
FZ9-137.30; E405|
To the Eternal Man in woe he cast them wailing into
FZ9-137.31; E405|
The world of shadows thro the air till winter is over & gone
FZ9-137.32; E405|
But the Human Wine stood wondering in all their delightful Expanses
FZ9-137.33; E405|
The Elements subside the heavens rolld on with vocal harmony
FZ9-137.34; E405|
Then Los who is Urthona rose in all his regenerate power
FZ9-137.35; E406|
The Sea that rolld & foamd with darkness & the shadows of death
FZ9-137.36; E406|
Vomited out & gave up all the floods lift up their hands
FZ9-137.37; E406|
Singing & shouting to the Man they bow their hoary heads
FZ9-137.38; E406|
And murmuring in their channels flow & circle round his feet
FZ9-138.1; E406|
Then Dark Urthona took the Corn out of the Stores of Urizen
FZ9-138.2; E406|
He ground it in his rumbling Mills Terrible the distress
FZ9-138.3; E406|
Of all the Nations of Earth ground in the Mills of Urthona
FZ9-138.4; E406|
In his hand Tharmas takes the Storms. he turns the whirlwind Loose
FZ9-138.5; E406|
Upon the wheels the stormy seas howl at his dread command
FZ9-138.6; E406|
And Eddying fierce rejoice in the fierce agitation o the wheels
FZ9-138.7; E406|
Of Dark Urthona Thunders Earthquakes Fires Water floods
FZ9-138.8; E406|
Rejoice to one another loud their voices shake the Abyss
FZ9-138.9; E406|
Their dread forms tending the dire mills The grey hoar frost was there
FZ9-138.10; E406|
And his pale wife the aged Snow they watch over the fires
FZ9-138.11; E406|
They build the Ovens of Urthona Nature in darkness groans
FZ9-138.12; E406|
And Men are bound to sullen contemplations in the night
FZ9-138.13; E406|
Restless they turn on beds of sorrow. in their inmost brain
FZ9-138.14; E406|
Feeling the crushing Wheels they rise they write the bitter words
FZ9-138.15; E406|
Of Stern Philosophy & knead the bread of knowledge with tears &
groans
FZ9-138.16; E406|
Such are the works of Dark Urthona Tharmas sifted the corn
FZ9-138.17; E406|
Urthona made the Bread of Ages & he placed it
FZ9-138.18; E406|
In golden & in silver baskets in heavens of precious stone
FZ9-138.19; E406|
And then took his repose in Winter in the night of Time
FZ9-138.20; E406|
The Sun has left his blackness & has found a fresher morning
FZ9-138.21; E406|
And the mild moon rejoices in the clear & cloudless night
t1016
FZ9-138.22; E406|
And Man walks forth from midst of the fires the evil is all consumd
FZ9-138.23; E406|
His eyes behold the Angelic spheres arising night & day
FZ9-138.24; E406|
The stars consumd like a lamp blown out & in their stead behold
FZ9-138.25; E406|
The Expanding Eyes of Man behold the depths of wondrous worlds
t1017
FZ9-138.26; E406|
One Earth one sea beneath nor Erring Globes wander but Stars
FZ9-138.27; E406|
Of fire rise up nightly from the Ocean & one Sun
FZ9-138.28; E406|
Each morning like a New born Man issues with songs & Joy
FZ9-138.29; E406|
Calling the Plowman to his Labour & the Shepherd to his rest
FZ9-138.30; E406|
He walks upon the Eternal Mountains raising his heavenly voice
FZ9-138.31; E406|
Conversing with the Animal forms of wisdom night & day
FZ9-138.32; E406|
That risen from the Sea of fire renewd walk oer the Earth
FZ9-138.33; E406|
For Tharmas brought his flocks upon the hills & in the Vales
FZ9-138.34; E406|
Around the Eternal Mans bright tent the little Children play
FZ9-138.3; E406|
Among the wooly flocks The hammer of Urthona sounds
FZ9-138.36; E406|
In the deep caves beneath his limbs renewd his Lions roar
FZ9-138.37; E406|
Around the Furnaces & in Evening sport upon the plains
FZ9-138.38; E406|
They raise their faces from the Earth conversing with the Man
FZ9-138.39; E407|
How is it we have walkd thro fires & yet are not consumd
FZ9-138.40; E407|
How is it that all things are changd even as in ancient times
FZ9-139.1; E407|
The Sun arises from his dewy bed & the fresh airs
FZ9-139.2; E407|
Play in his smiling beams giving the seeds of life to grow
FZ9-139.3; E407|
And the fresh Earth beams forth ten thousand thousand springs of life
FZ9-139.4; E407|
Urthona is arisen in his strength no longer now
FZ9-139.5; E407|
Divided from Enitharmon no longer the Spectre Los
FZ9-139.6; E407|
Where is the Spectre of Prophecy where the delusive Phantom
FZ9-139.7; E407|
Departed & Urthona rises from the ruinous walls
FZ9-139.8; E407|
In all his ancient strength to form the golden armour of science
FZ9-139.9; E407|
For intellectual War The war of swords departed now
FZ9-139.10; E407|
The dark Religions are departed & sweet Science reigns
FZ9-139end; E407|
End of The Dream t1018
