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Milton a Poem, copy B, object 4 (Bentley 4, Erdman 6, Keynes 4)

 

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02 From Golgonooza the spiritual Four-fold London eternal
03 In immense labours & sorrows, ever building. ever falling.
04 Thro Albions four Forests which overspread all the Earth.
05 From London Stone to Blackheath east; to Hounslow west;
06 To Finchley north; to Norwood south: and the weights
07 Of Enitharmons Loom play lulling cadences on the
08        winds of Albion
09 From Caithness in the north. to Lizard-point & Dover in the south
10 Loud sounds the Hammer of Los, & loud his Bellows is heard
11 Before London to Hampsteads breadths & Highgates heights To
12 Stratford & old Bow; & across to the Gardens of Kensington
13 On Tyburns Brook: loud groans Thames beneath the iron Forge
14 Of Rintrah & Palamabron of Theotorm & Bromion. to
15            forge the instruments
16 Of Harvest: the Plow & Harrow to pass over the Nations
17 The Surrey hills glow like the clinkers of the furnace: Lambeths Vale
18 Where Jerusalems foundations began: where they were laid in ruins
19 Where they were laid in ruins from every Nation & Oak Groves rooted
20 Dark gleams before the Furnace-mouth. a heap of burning ashes.
21 When shall Jerusalem return & overspread all the Nations
22 Return: return to Lambeths Vale O building of human souls
23 Thence stony Druid Temples overspread the Island white
24 And thence from Jerusalems ruins,. from her walls of salvation
25 And praise: thro the whole Earth were reard from Ireland
26 To Mexico & Peru west, & east to China & Japan: till Babel
27   The Spectre of Albion frownd over the Nations in glory & war
28   All things begin & end in Albions ancient Druid roc
29   But now the Starry Heavens are fled           -ky shore
30                      from the mighty limbs of
31                                                Albion
32                                                                                          armon
33 Loud sounds the Hammer of Los, loud turn the Wheels of Enith-
34 Her Looms vibrate with soft affections, weaving the Web of Life
35 Out from the ashes of the Dead; Los lifts his iron Ladles
36 With molten ore: he heaves the iron cliffs in his rattling chains
37 From Hyde Park to the Alms-houses of Mile-end & old Bow
38 Here the Three Classes of Mortal Men take their fixd destinations
39 And hence they overspread the Nations of the whole Earth & hence
40 The Web of Life is woven: & the tender sinews of life created
41 And the Three Classes of Men regulated by Los's hammer. and
32                                                                                          (woven

 

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