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Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, copy E, object 84 (Bentley 84, Erdman 84, Keynes 84)

 

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02 Highgates heights & Hampsteads, to Poplar Hackney & Bow:
03 To Islington & Paddington & the Brook of Albions River
04 We builded Jerusalem as a City & a Temple: from Lambeth
05 We began our Foundations; lovely Lambeth! O lovely Hills
06 Of Camberwell, we shall behold you no more in glory & pride
07 For Jerusalem lies in ruins & the Furnaces of Los are builded there
08 You are now shrunk up to a narrow Rock in the midst of the Sea
09 But here we build Babylon on Euphrates. compelld to build
10 And to inhabit. our Little-ones to clothe in armour of the gold
11 Of Jerusalems Cherubims & to forge them swords of her Altars
12 I see London blind & age-bent begging thro the Streets
13 Of Babylon, led by a child. his tears run down his beard
14 The voice of Wandering Reuben ecchoes from street to street
15 In all the Cities of the Nations Paris Madrid Amsterdam
16 The Corner of Broad Street weeps; Poland Street languishes
17 To Great Queen Street & Lincolns Inn all is distress & woe.
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18 The night falls thick Hand comes from Albion in his strength
19 He combines into a Mighty-one the Double Molech & Chemosh
20 Marching thro Egypt in his fury the East is pale at his course
21 The Nations of India, the Wild Tartar that never knew Man
22 Starts from his lofty places & casts down his tents & flees away
23 But we woo him all the night in songs, O Los come forth O Los
24 Divide us from these terrors & give us power them to subdue
25 Arise upon thy Watches let us see thy Globe of fire
26 On Albions Rocks & let thy voice be heard upon Euphrates.
27 Thus sang the Daughters in lamentation, uniting into One
28 With Rahab as she turned the iron Spindle of destruction.
29 Terrified at the Sons of Albion they took the Falshood which
30 Gwendolen hid in her left hand. it grew &, grew till it

 

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