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The banks of the Thames are clouded! the ancient
porches of Albion are |
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Darken'd! they are drawn thro' unbounded space,
scatter'd upon |
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The Void in incohererent despair! Cambridge & Oxford &
London. |
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Are driven among the starry Wheels. rent away and
dissipated, |
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In Chasms & Abysses of sorrow, enlarg'd without
dimension, terrible |
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Albions mountains run with blood. the cries of war & of
tumult |
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Resound into the unbounded night, every Human
perfection |
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Of mountain & river & city. are small & wither'd &
darken'd |
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Cam is a little stream! Ely is almost swallowd up! |
| 11 |
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Lincoln & Norwich stand trembling on the brink of Udan-Adan! |
| 12 |
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Wales and Scotland shrink themselves to the west and to
the north! |
| 13 |
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Mourning for fear of the warriors in the Vale of
Entuthon-Benython |
| 14 |
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Jerusalem is scatterd abroad like a cloud of smoke
thro' non-entity: |
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Moab & Ammon & Amalek & Canaan & Egypt & Aram |
| 16 |
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Recieve her little-ones for sacrifices and the delights
of cruelty |
| 17 |
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Trembling I sit day and night, my friends are
astonish'd at me |
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Yet they forgive my nderings, I rest not from my
great task! |
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To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal
Eyes |
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Of Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into
Eternity |
| 21 |
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Ever expanding in the Bosom of God, the Human
Imagination |
| 22 |
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O Saviour pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness &
love: |
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Annihilate the Selfhood in me, be thou all my life! |
| 24 |
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Guide thou my hand which trembles exceedingly upon the
rock of ages, |
| 25 |
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While I write of the building of Golgonooza. & of the
terrors of Entuthon: |
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Of Hand & Hyle & Coban. of Kwantok. Peachey. Brereton.
Slayd & Hutton: |
| 27 |
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Of the terrible sons & daughters of Albion. and their
Generations. |
| 28 |
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Scofield: Kox. Kotope and Bowen, revolve most mightily
upon |
| 29 |
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The Furnace of Los: before the eastern gate bending
their fury. |
| 30 |
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They war, to destroy the Furnaces, to desolate
Golgonooza: |
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And to devour the Sleeping Humanity of Albion in rage &
hunger. |
| 32 |
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They revolve into the Furnaces Southward & are driven
forth Northward |
| 33 |
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Divided into Male and Female forms time after time. |
| 34 |
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From these Twelve all the Families of England spread
abroad. |
| 47 |
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The Starry Wheels revolv'd heavily over the
Furnaces; |
| 48 |
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Drawing Jerusalem in anguish of maternal love, |
| 49 |
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Eastward a pillar of a cloud with Vala upon the
mountains |
| 50 |
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Howling in pain. redounding from the arms of Beulahs
Daughters, |
| 51 |
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Out from the Furnaces of Los above the head of Los. |
| 52 |
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A pillar of smoke writhing afar into Non-Entity,
redounding |
| 53 |
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Till the cloud reaches afar outstretch'd among the
Starry Wheels |
| 54 |
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Which revolve heavily in the mighty Void above the
Furnaces |
| 55 |
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O what avail the loves & tears of Beulahs lovely
Daughters |
| 56 |
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They hold the Immortal Form in gentle bands & tender
tears |
| 57 |
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But all within is open'd into the deeps of Entuthon
Benython |
| 58 |
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A dark and unknown night. indefinite. unmeasurable.
without end. |
| 59 |
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Abstract Philosophy warring in enmity against
Imagination |
| 60 |
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Which is the Divine Body of the Lord Jesus. blessed for
ever). |
| 61 |
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And there Jerusalem wanders with Vala upon the
mountains. |
| 62 |
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Attracted by the revolutions of those Wheels the Cloud
of smoke: |
| 63 |
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Immense. and Jerusalem & Vala weeping in the Cloud |
| 64 |
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Wander away into the Chaotic Void, lamenting with her
Shadow |
| 65 |
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Among the Daughters of Albion, among the Starry
Wheels: |
| 66 |
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Lamenting for her children, for the sons & daughters of
Albion |