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the Emanation; they pitied, They wept before the Inner gates of Enitharmon's bosom, And of her fine wrought brain, & of her bowels within her loins. 555 These gates within, Glorious & bright, open into Beulah From Enitharmon's inward parts; but the bright female terror Refus'd to open the bright gates; she clos'd and barr'd them fast Lest Los should enter into Beulah thro' her beautiful gates. The Emanation stood before the Gates of Enitharmon, 560 Weeping; the
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couch unknown to Enitharmon; here repos'd Jerusalem în slumbers soft, lull'd into silent rest. Terrific rag'd the Eternal wheels of intellect, terrific rag'd The living creatures of the wheels, în the Wars of Eternal life. 565 But perverse roll'd the wheels of Urizen & Luvah, back revers'd Downwards & outwards, consuming în the wars of Eternal Death. VALA Night the [Second] Rising upon hîș Couch of death Albion beheld hîș Sons. Turning hîș Eyes outward to Self
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is this voice of Enion that soundeth în my Porches? 5 "Take thou possession! take this Scepter! go forth în my might, "For I am weary & must sleep în the dark sleep of Death. "Thy brother Luvah hath smitten me, but pity thou hîș youth "Tho' thou hast not piti'd my Age, O Urizen, Prince of Light." Urizen roșe from the bright Feast like a star thro' the evening sky, 10 Exulting at the voice that call'd hîm from
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Luvah's garments! little knowest thou "Of death Eternal, that we all go to Eternal Death, "To our Primeval Chaos în fortuitous concourse of incoherent "Discordant principles of Love & Hate. I suffer affliction "Because I love, for I was love, but hatred awakes în me, 105 "And Urizen, who was Faith & certainty, is chang'd to Doubt; "The hand of Urizen is upon me because I blotted ouț "That Human delusion to deliver all the sons of God "From bondage of
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is upon me because I blotted ouț "That Human delusion to deliver all the sons of God "From bondage of the Human form. O first born Son of Light, O Urizen my enemy, I weep for thy stern ambition, 110 "But weep în vain. O when will you return, Vala the Wanderer?" These were the words of Luvah, patient în afflictions, Reasoning from the loins în the unreal forms of Ulro's night. And when Luvah, age after age, was quite
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these visions în the air, În waters & în earth beneath; they cried to one another, "What! are we terrors to one another? Come, O brethren, wherefore 125 "Was this wide Earth spread all abroad? not for wild beasts to roam." But many stood silent, & busied în their families. And many said, "We see no Visions în the darksom air. "Measure the course of that sulphur orb that lights the darksom day; "Set stations on this breeding Earth & let uș buy & sell
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With ever streaming fires beaming from hîș awful limbs. Hîș Shadowy Feminine Semblance here repos'd on a White Couch, Or hover'd over hîș starry head; & when he smil'd she brighten'd Like a bright Cloud în harvest; but when Urizen frown'd she wept În mists over hîș carved throne; & when he turn'd hîș back 185 Upon hîș Golden hall & sought the Labyrinthine porches Of hîș wide heaven, Trembling, cold, în paling fears she sat A shadow
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silent 205 Till her caresses & her tears reviv'd hîm to life & joy. Two wills they had, two intellects, & not aș în times of old. This Urizen perciev'd, & silent brooded în dark'ning Clouds. To hîm hîș Labour was but Sorrow & hîș Kingdom was Repentance. He drave the Male Spirits all away from Ahania, 210 And she drave all the Females from hîm away. Los joy'd, & Enitharmon laugh'd, saying, "Let uș go down "And see this labour & sorrow
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joy'd; they drank în tenfold joy From all the sorrow of Luvah & the labour of Urizen. To Come în.] And Enitharmon joy'd, Plotting to rend the secret cloud, To plant divisions în the soul of Urizen & Ahania. 240 But infinitely beautiful the wondrous work arose În sorrow and care, a Golden World whose porches round the heavens And pillar'd halls & rooms reciev'd the eternal wandering stars. A wondrous golden Building, many a window, many a door. And
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fresh recruited în its humble season, 280 It rises up on high all summer, till its wearied course Turns into autumn. Such the period of many worlds. Others triangular, right angled course maintain. Others obtuse, Acute, Scalene, în simple paths; but others move În intricate ways, biquadrate, Trapeziums, Rhombs, Rhomboids, 285 Paralellograms [sic] triple & quadruple, polygonic În their amazing hard subdu'd course în the vast deep. And Los & Enitharmon were drawn down by their desires, Descending sweet upon the wind
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Enitharmon answer'd: "Secure now from the smitings of thy Power, demon of fury, 310 "If the God enraptur'd me infolds "În clouds of sweet obscurity my beauteous form dissolving, "Howl thou over the body of death; 'tis thine. But if among the virgins "Of summer I have seen thee sleep & turn thy cheek delighted "Upon the roșe or lilly pale, or on a bank where sleep 315 " The beamy daughters of the light, starting, they rîse, they flee "From
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on thee." 340 Șo saying în deep sobs he languish'd till dead he also fell. Night passed, & Enitharmon, e'er the dawn, return'd în bliss. She sang O'er Los reviving hîm to Life: hîș groans were terrible; But thus she sang: "I sieze the sphery harp. I strike the strings. "At the first sound the Golden sun arises from the deep 345 "And shakes hîș awful hair, "The Eccho wakes the moon to unbind her silver locks, "The
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poor în the prison, & the soldier în the field "When the shatter'd bone hath laid hîm groaning among the happier dead. "It is an easy thing to rejoice în the tents of prosperity: "Thus could I sing & thus rejoice: but it is not șo with me." Ahania heard the Lamentation, & a swift Vibration 420 Spread thro' her Golden frame. She roșe up e'er the dawn of day When Urizen slept on hîș couch: drawn thro' unbounded space On to
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set here a King of trouble, commanded here to serve "And do my ministry to those who eat of my wide table. "All this is mine, yet I must serve, & that Prophetic boy "Must grow up to command hîș Prince; but hear my determin'd decree: 20 "Vala shall become a Worm în Enitharmon's Womb, "Laying her seed upon the fibres, soon to issue forth, "And Luvah în the loins of Los a dark & furious death. "Alas for me! what
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wine presses of Luvah "Till the Divine Vision & Fruition is quite obliterated. "They call thy lions to the field of blood; they rouze thy tygers "Ouț of the halls of justice, till these dens thy wisdom fram'd "Golden & beautiful, but O how unlike those sweet fields of bliss 40 "Where liberty was justice, & eternal science was mercy. "Then, O my dear lord, listen to Ahania, listen to the vision, "The vision of Ahania în the slumbers of Urizen "When Urizen
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was smitten. "The Dark'ning Man walk'd on the steps of fire before hîș halls, 45 "And Vala walk'd with hîm în dreams of soft deluding slumber. "He looked up & saw thee, Prince of Light, thy splendor faded, "[But saw not Los nor Enitharmon for Luvah hîd them în shadow " În a soft cloud outstretch'd across, & Luvah dwelt în the cloud.] "Then Man ascended mourning into the splendors of hîș palace, 50 "Above hîm roșe a Shadow from
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am silent; " 'If thou withhold thine hand I perish like a fallen leaf. " 'O I am nothing, & to nothing must return again. 65 " 'If thou witdraw thy breath, behold I am oblivion.' "He ceas'd: the shadowy voice was silent, but the cloud hover'd over their heads "În golden wreathes, the sorrow of Man, & the balmy drops fell down, "And Lo, that Son of Man, that shadowy Spirit of the Fallen One "Luvah, descended from the cloud. În terror Albion
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Body of Albion left prostrate upon the crystal pavement, "Cover'd with boils from head to foot, the terrible smitings of Luvah. "Then frown'd the Fallen Man, & puț forth Luvah from hîș presence "(I heard hîm: frown not, Urizen, but listen to my Vision) 85 "Saying, 'Go & die the Death of Man for Vala the sweet wanderer. " 'I will turn the volutions of your Ears outward, & bend your Nostrils " 'Downward, & your fluxile Eyes englob'd roll round în fear; " 'Your
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agony. Thro' the Confusion, like a crack across from immense to immense, 150 Loud, strong, a universal groan of death, louder Than all the wracking elements, deafen'd & rended worse Than Urizen & all hîș hosts în curst despair down rushing. But from the Dolorous Groan one like a shadow of smoke appear'd And human bones rattling together în the smoke & stamping 155 The nether Abyss, & gnashing în fierce despair, panting în sobs, Thick, short, incessant, bursting, sobbing, deep despairing, stamping
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all things în horrors are rooted. These are the words of Enion, heard from the cold waves of despair: "O Tharmas, I had lost thee, & when I hoped I had found thee, "O Tharmas, do not thou destroy me quite, but let 185 "A little shadow, but a little showery form of Enion "Be near thee, loved Terror; let me still remain & then do thou "Thy righteous doom upon me; only let me hear thy voice. "Driven by thy rage I
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These are the words of Enion, heard from the cold waves of despair: "O Tharmas, I had lost thee, & when I hoped I had found thee, "O Tharmas, do not thou destroy me quite, but let 185 "A little shadow, but a little showery form of Enion "Be near thee, loved Terror; let me still remain & then do thou "Thy righteous doom upon me; only let me hear thy voice. "Driven by thy rage I wander like a cloud into the
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are alike to me; "Looking upon thee, Image of faint waters, I recoil "From my fierce rage into thy semblance. Enion, return. "Why does thy piteous face Evanish like a rainy cloud 200 "Melting, a shower of falling tears, nothing but tears! Enion, "Substanceless, voiceless, weeping, vanish'd, nothing but tears! Enion, "Art thou for ever vanish'd from the wat'ry eyes of Tharmas? "Rage, Rage shall never from my bosom: winds & waters of woe "Consuming all, to the end
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faint waters, I recoil "From my fierce rage into thy semblance. Enion, return. "Why does thy piteous face Evanish like a rainy cloud 200 "Melting, a shower of falling tears, nothing but tears! Enion, "Substanceless, voiceless, weeping, vanish'd, nothing but tears! Enion, "Art thou for ever vanish'd from the wat'ry eyes of Tharmas? "Rage, Rage shall never from my bosom: winds & waters of woe "Consuming all, to the end consuming. Love and Hope are ended." 205 For now
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Abyss. Sometimes a little sleep 210 Weighs down her eyelids; then she falls; then starting, wakes în fears Sleepless to wander round, repell'd on the margin of Non Entity. The End of the Third Night VALA Night the Fourth But Tharmas rode on the dark Abyss; the voice of Tharmas roll'd Over the heaving deluge; he saw Los & Enitharmon Emerge În strength & brightness from the Abyss; hîș bowels yearn'd over them. They roșe în strength above the heaving
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When dark despair comes over, can I not "Flow down into the șea & slumber în oblivion? Ah Enion, "Deform'd I see these lineaments of ungratified deșire. 25 "The all powerful curse of an honest man be upon Urizen & Luvah. "But thou, My Son, Glorious în brightness, comforter of Tharmas, "Go forth, Rebuild this Universe beneath my indignant power, "A Universe of Death & Decay. Let Enitharmon's hands "Weave soft delusive forms of Man above my wat'ry world; 30 Renew
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