,,the ,,marriage ,,of ,,heaven    ,,and 
,,hell            ,,the ,,marriage ,,of 
,,heaven ,,and ,,hell      ,,by         
,,william ,,blake        ,illustration  
,,boston    ,,john ,w4 ,,luce ,,and     
,,company    #aijf          ,,the       
,,marriage ,,of ,,heaven ,,and ,,hell   
,,the ,,argument          ,rintrah roars
 and shakes his fires in the burden'd   
air1      ,hungry clouds swag on the    
deep4        ,once meek1 and in a       
perilous path      ,the just man kept   
his course along      ,the ,vale of     
,death4      ,roses are planted where   
thorns grow1      ,and on the barren    
heath      ,sing the honey bees4        
,then the perilous path was planted1    
,and a river and a spring      ,on every
 cliff and tomb2      ,and on the       
bleached bones      ,red clay brought   
forth3      ,till the villain left the  
paths of ease      ,to walk in perilous 
paths1 and drive      ,the just man into
 barren climes4        ,now the sneaking
 serpent walks      ,in mild humility2  

,and the just man rages in the wilds    
,where lions roam4        ,rintrah roars
 and shakes his fires in the burden'd   
air1      ,hungry clouds swag on the    
deep4      ,as a new heaven is begun1   
and it is now thirty-three years since  
its  advent1 the ,eternal ,hell revives4
 ,and lo6 ,swedenborg is the angel      
sitting at the tomb3 his writings are   
the linen clothes folded up4 ,now  is   
the dominion of ,edom1 and the return of
 ,adam into ,paradise4--,see  ,isaiah   
xxxiv4 and xxxv4 chap4    ,without      
contraries is no progression4           
,attraction and repulsion1 reason  and  
energy1 love and hate1 are necessary to 
human existence4    ,from these         
contraries spring what the religious    
call ,good and ,evil4  ,good is the     
passive that obeys reason2 ,evil is the 
active springing  from ,energy4    ,good
 is heaven4 ,evil is hell4              
,,the ,,voice ,,of ,,the ,,devil        
,all ,bibles or sacred codes have been  
the cause of the following  errors3--   

#a4 ,that man has two real existing     
principles1 viz41 a ,body and a ,soul4  
#b4 ,that ,energy1 called ,evil1 is     
alone from the ,body2 and that ,reason1 
called ,good1 is alone from the ,soul4  
#c4 ,that ,god will torment man in      
,eternity for following his ,energies4  
,but the following contraries to these  
are true3--    #a4 ,man has no ,body    
distinct from his ,soul4 ,for that      
called ,body is a  portion of ,soul     
discerned by the five senses1 the chief 
inlets of ,soul  in this age4    #b4    
,energy is the only life1 and is from   
the ,body2 and ,reason is the  bound or 
outward circumference of ,energy4    #c4
 ,energy is ,eternal ,delight4    ,those
 who restrain desire1 do so because     
theirs is weak enough to be  restrained2
 and the restrainer or reason usurps its
 place and governs  the unwilling4      
,and being restrained1 it by degrees    
becomes passive1 till it is only  the   
shadow of desire4    ,the history of    
this is written in ,paradise ,lost1 and 

the ,governor or  ,reason is called     
,messiah4    ,and the original          
,archangel or possessor of the command  
of the heavenly  host is called the     
,devil1 or ,satan1 and his children are 
called ,sin and  ,death4    ,but in the 
book of ,job1 ,milton's ,messiah is     
called ,satan4    ,for this history has 
been adopted by both parties4    ,it    
indeed appeared to ,reason as if desire 
was cast out1 but the  ,devil's account 
is1 that the ,messiah fell1 and formed a
 heaven of what  he stole from the      
abyss4    ,this is shown in the ,gospel1
 where he prays to the ,father to send  
the  ,comforter or desire that ,reason  
may have ideas to build on1 the ,jehovah
  of the ,bible being no other than he  
who dwells in flaming fire4 ,know  that 
after ,christ's death he became         
,jehovah4    ,but in ,milton1 the       
,father is ,destiny1 the ,son a ratio of
 the five  senses1 and the ,holy ,ghost 
vacuum6      ,note4--,the reason ,milton
 wrote in fetters when he wrote of      

,angels and  ,god1 and at liberty when  
of ,devils and ,hell1 is because he was 
a true  poet1 and of the ,devil's party 
without knowing it4          ,a         
,,memorable ,,fancy      ,as ,i was     
walking among the fires of ,hell1       
delighted with the enjoyments  of       
,genius1 which to ,angels look like     
torment and insanity1 ,i collected  some
 of their proverbs1 thinking that as the
 sayings used in a nation  mark its     
character1 so the proverbs of ,hell show
 the nature of infernal  wisdom better  
than any description of buildings or    
garments4    ,when ,i came home1 on the 
abyss of the five senses1 where a       
flat-sided  steep frowns over the       
present world1 ,i saw a mighty ,devil   
folded in  black clouds hovering on the 
sides of the rock2 with corroding fires 
he wrote the following sentence now     
perceived by the minds of men1 and  read
 by them on earth3--        ,how do you 
know but every bird          that cuts  
the airy way      ,is an immense world  

of delight1          closed by your     
senses five8          ,,proverbs ,,of   
,,hell      ,in seed-time learn1 in     
harvest teach1 in winter enjoy4         
,drive your cart and your plough over   
the bones of the dead4    ,the road of  
excess leads to the palace of wisdom4   
,prudence is a rich ugly old maid       
courted by ,incapacity4    ,he who      
desires1 but acts not1 breeds           
pestilence4    ,the cut worm forgives   
the plough4    ,dip him in the river who
 loves water4    ,a fool sees not the   
same tree that a wise man sees4    ,he  
whose face gives no light shall never   
become a star4    ,eternity is in love  
with the productions of time4    ,the   
busy bee has no time for sorrow4    ,the
 hours of folly are measured by the     
clock1 but of wisdom no clock  can      
measure4    ,all wholesome food is      
caught without a net or a trap4         
,bring out number1 weight1 and measure  
in a year of dearth4    ,no bird soars  
too high if he soars with his own wings4

    ,a dead body revenges not injuries4 
,the most sublime act is to set another 
before you4    ,if the fool would       
persist in his folly he would become    
wise4    ,folly is the cloak of knavery4
    ,shame is ,pride's cloak4           
,prisons are built with stones of law1  
brothels with bricks of religion4       
,the pride of the peacock is the glory  
of ,god4    ,the lust of the goat is the
 bounty of ,god4    ,the wrath of the   
lion is the wisdom of ,god4    ,the     
nakedness of woman is the work of ,god4 
,excess of sorrow laughs1 excess of joy 
weeps4    ,the roaring of lions1 the    
howling of wolves1 the raging of the    
stormy  sea1 and the destructive sword1 
are portions of ,eternity too great for 
the eye of man4    ,the fox condemns the
 trap1 not himself4    ,joys impregnate1
 sorrows bring forth4    ,let man wear  
the fell of the lion1 woman the fleece  
of the sheep4    ,the bird a nest1 the  
spider a web1 man friendship4    ,the   
selfish smiling fool and the sullen     

frowning fool shall be both  thought    
wise that they may be a rod4    ,what is
 now proved was once only imagined4     
,the rat1 the mouse1 the fox1 the rabbit
 watch the roots2 the lion1 the  tiger1 
the horse1 the elephant watch the       
fruits4    ,the cistern contains1 the   
fountain overflows4    ,one thought     
fills immensity4    ,always be ready to 
speak your mind1 and a base man will    
avoid you4    ,everything possible to be
 believed is an image of truth4    ,the 
eagle never lost so much time as when he
 submitted to learn of the  crow4       
,the fox provides for himself1 but ,god 
provides for the lion4    ,think in the 
morning1 act in the noon1 eat in the    
evening1 sleep in the  night4    ,he who
 has suffered you to impose on him knows
 you4    ,as the plough follows words1  
so ,god rewards prayers4    ,the tigers 
of wrath are wiser than the horses of   
instruction4    ,expect poison from the 
standing water4    ,you never know what 
is enough unless you know what is more  

than enough4    ,listen to the fool's   
reproach2 it is a kingly title4    ,the 
eyes of fire1 the nostrils of air1 the  
mouth of water1 the beard  of earth4    
,the weak in courage is strong in       
cunning4    ,the apple tree never asks  
the beech how he shall grow1 nor the    
lion the  horse how he shall take his   
prey4    ,the thankful receiver bears a 
plentiful harvest4    ,if others had not
 been foolish we should have been so4   
,the soul of sweet delight can never be 
defiled4    ,when thou seest an eagle1  
thou seest a portion of ,genius4 ,lift  
up thy  head6    ,as the caterpillar    
chooses the fairest leaves to lay her   
eggs on1 so  the priest lays his curse  
on the fairest joys4    ,to create a    
little flower is the labour of ages4    
,damn braces2 bless relaxes4    ,the    
best wine is the oldest1 the best water 
the newest4    ,prayers plough not2     
praises reap not2 joys laugh not2       
sorrows weep not4    ,the head ,sublime1
 the heart ,pathos1 the genitals        

,beauty1 the hands and  feet            
,proportion4    ,as the air to a bird1  
or the sea to a fish1 so is contempt to 
the  contemptible4    ,the crow wished  
everything was black2 the owl that      
everything was white4    ,exuberance is 
,beauty4    ,if the lion was advised by 
the fox1 he would be cunning4           
,improvement makes straight roads1 but  
the crooked roads without  ,improvement 
are roads of ,genius4    ,sooner murder 
an infant in its cradle than nurse      
unacted desires4    ,where man is not1  
nature is barren4    ,truth can never be
 told so as to be understood and not to 
be believed4    ,enough6 or ,too much4  
99       99       99       99       99  
,the ancient poets animated all sensible
 objects with ,gods or ,geniuses1       
calling them by the names and adorning  
them with properties of woods1  rivers1 
mountains1 lakes1 cities1 nations1 and  
whatever their enlarged  and numerous   
senses could perceive4 ,and particularly
 they studied the  ,genius of each city 

and country1 placing it under its mental
 deity4  ,till a system was formed1     
which some took advantage of and        
enslaved the  vulgar by attempting to   
realize or abstract the mental deities  
from  their objects4 ,thus began        
,priesthood4 ,choosing forms of worship 
from  poetic tales4 ,and at length they 
pronounced that the ,gods had ordered   
such things4 ,thus men forgot that all  
deities reside in the human  breast4    
,a ,,memorable ,,fancy      ,the        
,prophets ,isaiah and ,ezekiel dined    
with me1 and ,i asked them how  they    
dared so roundly to assert that ,god    
spoke to them1 and whether  they did not
 think at the time that they would be   
misunderstood1 and so  be the cause of  
imposition4    ,isaiah answered3 ,i saw 
no ,god1 nor heard any1 in a finite     
organical  perception3 but my senses    
discovered the infinite in everything2  
and as  ,i was then persuaded1 and      
remained confirmed1 that the voice of   
honest  indignation is the voice of     

,god1 ,i cared not for consequences1 but
  wrote4    ,then ,i asked3 ,does a firm
 persuasion that a thing is so1 make it 
so8    ,he replied3 ,all poets believe  
that it does1 and in ages of imagination
  this firm persuasion removed          
mountains2 but many are not capable of a
  firm persuasion of anything4    ,then 
,ezekiel said3 ,the philosophy of the   
,east taught the first  principles of   
human perception2 some nations held one 
principle for  the origin1 and some     
another4 ,we of ,israel taught that the 
,poetic  ,genius 7as you now call it7   
was the first principle1 and all the    
others  merely derivative1 which was the
 cause of our despising the ,priests and
  ,philosophers of other countries1 and 
prophesying that all ,gods would  at    
last be proved to originate in ours1 and
 to be the tributaries of  the ,poetic  
,genius4 ,it was this that our great    
poet ,king ,david desired  so fervently1
 and invokes so pathetically1 saying by 
this he conquers  enemies and governs   

kingdoms2 and we so loved our ,god that 
we cursed  in ,his name all the deities 
of surrounding nations1 and asserted    
that  they had rebelled4 ,from these    
opinions the vulgar came to think that  
all nations would at last be subject to 
the ,jews4    ,this1 said he1 like all  
firm persuasions1 is come to pass1 for  
all  nations believe the ,jews' code1   
and worship the ,jews' ,god2 and what   
greater subjection can be8    ,i heard  
this with some wonder1 and must confess 
my own conviction4  ,after dinner ,i    
asked ,isaiah to favour the world with  
his lost works2 he  said none of equal  
value was lost4 ,ezekiel said the same  
of his4    ,i also asked ,isaiah what   
made him go naked and barefoot three    
years4 ,he  answered3 ,the same that    
made our friend ,diogenes the ,grecian4 
,i then asked ,ezekiel why he ate dung1 
and lay so long on his right  and left  
side4 ,he answered3 ,the desire of      
raising other men into a  perception of 
the infinite4 ,this the ,north ,american

 tribes practise4  ,and is he honest who
 resists his genius or conscience1 only 
for the  sake of present ease or        
gratification8           99       99    
99       99       99    ,the ancient    
tradition that the world will be        
consumed in fire at the  end of six     
thousand years is true1 as ,i have heard
 from ,hell4    ,for the cherub with his
 flaming sword is hereby commanded to   
leave his  guard at the tree of life1   
and when he does1 the whole creation    
will  be consumed and appear infinite   
and holy1 whereas it now appears finite 
and corrupt4    ,this will come to pass 
by an improvement of sensual enjoyment4 
,but first the notion that man has a    
body distinct from his soul is  to be   
expunged2 this ,i shall do by printing  
in the infernal method by  corrosives1  
which in ,hell are salutary and         
medicinal1 melting apparent  surfaces   
away1 and displaying the infinite which 
was hid4    ,if the doors of perception 
were cleansed everything would appear to

 man  as it is1 infinite4    ,for man   
has closed himself up1 till he sees all 
things through narrow  chinks of his    
cavern4          ,a ,,memorable ,,fancy 
,i was in a printing-house in ,hell1 and
 saw the method in which  knowledge is  
transmitted from generation to          
generation4    ,in the first chamber was
 a dragon-man1 clearing away the rubbish
 from a  cave's mouth2 within1 a number 
of dragons were hollowing the cave4     
,in the second chamber was a viper      
folding round the rock and the cave1    
and others adorning it with gold1       
silver1 and precious stones4    ,in the 
third chamber was an eagle with wings   
and feathers of air2 he  caused the     
inside of the cave to be infinite2      
around were numbers of  eagle-like men1 
who built palaces in the immense cliffs4
    ,in the fourth chamber were lions of
 flaming fire raging around and  melting
 the metals into living fluids4    ,in  
the fifth chamber were unnamed forms1   
which cast the metals into the  expanse4

    ,there they were received by men who
 occupied the sixth chamber1 and  took  
the forms of books1 and were arranged in
 libraries4           99       99       
99       99       99    ,the ,giants who
 formed this world into its sensual     
existence and now  seem to live in it in
 chains are in truth the causes of its  
life and  the sources of all activity1  
but the chains are the cunning of weak  
and tame minds1 which have power to     
resist energy1 according to the         
proverb1 ,the weak in courage is strong 
in cunning4    ,thus one portion of     
being is the ,prolific1 the other the   
,devouring4 ,to  the devourer it seems  
as if the producer was in his chains2   
but it is  not so1 he only takes        
portions of existence1 and fancies that 
the whole4    ,but the ,prolific would  
cease to be prolific unless the         
,devourer as a  sea received the excess 
of his delights4    ,some will say1 ,is 
not ,god alone the ,prolific8 ,i answer3
 ,god only  acts and is in existing     

beings or men4    ,these two classes of 
men are always upon earth1 and they     
should be  enemies3 whoever tries to    
reconcile them seeks to destroy         
existence4    ,religion is an endeavour 
to reconcile the two4                   
,note4--,jesus ,christ did not wish to  
unite but to separate them1 as  in the  
parable of sheep and goats2 and ,he     
says3 ,i came not to send  peace1 but a 
sword4    ,messiah1 or ,satan1 or       
,tempter1 was formerly thought to be one
 of the  antediluvians who are our      
,energies4          ,a ,,memorable      
,,fancy      ,an ,angel came to me and  
said3 ,o pitiable foolish young man6 ,o 
horrible1 ,o dreadful state6 ,consider  
the hot burning dungeon thou art        
preparing for thyself to all ,eternity1 
to which thou art going in such  career4
    ,i said3 ,perhaps you will be       
willing to show me my eternal lot1 and  
we  will contemplate together upon it1  
and see whether your lot or mine is     
most desirable4    ,so he took me       

through a stable1 and through a church1 
and down into  the church vault1 at the 
end of which was a mill2 through the    
mill we  went1 and came to a cave2 down 
the winding cavern we groped our tedious
  way1 till a void boundless as a nether
 sky appeared beneath us1 and we  held  
by the roots of trees1 and hung over    
this immensity2 but ,i said3  ,if you   
please1 we will commit ourselves to this
 void1 and see whether  ,providence is  
here also2 if you will not1 ,i will4    
,but he answered3 ,do  not presume1 ,o  
young man2 but as we here remain1 behold
 thy lot1 which  will soon appear when  
the darkness passes away4    ,so ,i     
remained with him sitting in the twisted
 root of an oak2 he was  suspended in a 
fungus1 which hung with the head        
downward into the deep4    ,by degrees  
we beheld the infinite abyss1 fiery as  
the smoke of a  burning city2 beneath us
 at an immense distance was the sun1    
black but  shining2 round it were fiery 
tracks on which revolved vast spiders1  

crawling after their prey1 which flew1  
or rather swum1 in the infinite  deep1  
in the most terrific shapes of animals  
sprung from corruption2  and the air was
 full of them1 and seemed composed of   
them4 ,these are  ,devils1 and are      
called powers of the air4 ,i now asked  
my companion  which was my eternal lot4 
,he said3 ,between the black and white  
spiders4    ,but now1 from between the  
black and white spiders1 a cloud and    
fire  burst and rolled through the deep1
 blackening all beneath so that the     
nether deep grew black as a sea1 and    
rolled with a terrible noise4  ,beneath 
us was nothing now to be seen but a     
black tempest1 till looking  ,east      
between the clouds and the waves1 we saw
 a cataract of blood mixed  with fire1  
and not many stones' throw from us      
appeared and sunk again  the scaly fold 
of a monstrous serpent4 ,at last to the 
,east1 distant  about three degrees1    
appeared a fiery crest above the waves2 
slowly  it reared like a ridge of golden

 rocks1 till we discovered two globes   
of crimson fire1 from which the sea fled
 away in clouds of smoke2 and  now we   
saw it was the head of ,leviathan4 ,his 
forehead was divided into  streaks of   
green and purple1 like those on a       
tiger's forehead2 soon we  saw his mouth
 and red gills hang just above the      
raging foam1 tinging  the black deeps   
with beams of blood1 advancing toward us
 with all the  fury of a spiritual      
existence4    ,my friend the ,angel     
climbed up from his station into the    
mill4 ,i  remained alone1 and then this 
appearance was no more2 but ,i found    
myself sitting on a pleasant bank beside
 a river by moonlight1 hearing  a harper
 who sung to the harp2 and his theme    
was3 ,the man who never  alters his     
opinion is like standing water1 and     
breeds reptiles of the  mind4    ,but ,i
 arose1 and sought for the mill1 and    
there ,i found my ,angel1 who1          
surprised1 asked me how ,i escaped4     
,i answered3 ,all that we saw was owing 

to your metaphysics2 for when  you ran  
away1 ,i found myself on a bank by      
moonlight1 hearing a harper4  ,but now  
we have seen my eternal lot1 shall ,i   
show you yours8 ,he  laughed at my      
proposal2 but ,i by force suddenly      
caught him in my arms1  and flew        
,westerly through the night1 till we    
were elevated above the  earth's shadow2
 then ,i flung myself with him directly 
into the body  of the sun2 here ,i      
clothed myself in white1 and taking in  
my hand  ,swedenborg's volumes1 sunk    
from the glorious clime1 and passed all 
the  planets till we came to ,saturn4   
,here ,i stayed to rest1 and then leaped
  into the void between ,saturn and the 
fixed stars4    ,here1 said ,i1 is your 
lot2 in this space1 if space it may be  
called4 ,soon we saw the stable and the 
church1 and ,i took him to the  altar   
and opened the ,bible1 and lo6 it was a 
deep pit1 into which ,i  descended1     
driving the ,angel before me4 ,soon we  
saw seven houses of  brick4 ,one we     

entered4 ,in it were a number of        
monkeys1 baboons1 and  all of that      
species1 chained by the middle1 grinning
 and snatching at  one another1 but     
withheld by the shortness of their      
chains4 ,however1 ,i  saw that they     
sometimes grew numerous1 and then the   
weak were caught  by the strong1 and    
with a grinning aspect1 first coupled   
with and then  devoured by plucking off 
first one limb and then another till the
 body  was left a helpless trunk2 this1 
after grinning and kissing it with      
seeming fondness1 they devoured too4    
,and here and there ,i saw one          
savourily picking the flesh off his own 
tail4 ,as the stench terribly  annoyed  
us both1 we went into the mill2 and ,i  
in my hand brought the  skeleton of a   
body1 which in the mill was ,aristotle's
 ,analytics4    ,so the ,angel said3    
,thy phantasy has imposed upon me1 and  
thou oughtest  to be ashamed4    ,i     
answered3 ,we impose on one another1 and
 it is but lost time to  converse with  

you whose works are only ,analytics4    
99       99       99       99       99  
,i have always found that ,angels have  
the vanity to speak of themselves  as   
the only wise2 this they do with a      
confident insolence sprouting  from     
systematic reasoning4    ,thus          
,swedenborg boasts that what he writes  
is new2 though it is only  the contents 
or index of already published books4    
,a man carried a monkey about for a     
show1 and because he was a little  wiser
 than the monkey1 grew vain1 and        
conceived himself as much  wiser than   
seven men4 ,it is so with ,swedenborg2  
he shows the folly  of churches1 and    
exposes hypocrites1 till he imagines    
that all are  religious1 and himself the
 single one on earth that ever broke a  
net4    ,now hear a plain fact3         
,swedenborg has not written one new     
truth4 ,now  hear another3 he has       
written all the old falsehoods4    ,and 
now hear the reason3 he conversed with  
,angels who are all  religious1 and     

conversed not with ,devils who all hate 
religion1 for he  was incapable through 
his conceited notions4    ,thus         
,swedenborg's writings are a            
recapitulation of all superficial       
opinions1 and an analysis of the more   
sublime1 but no further4    ,have now   
another plain fact3 any man of          
mechanical talents may from  the        
writings of ,paracelsus or ,jacob       
,behmen produce ten thousand  volumes of
 equal value with ,swedenborg's1 and    
from those of ,dante or  ,shakespeare an
 infinite number4    ,but when he has   
done this1 let him not say that he knows
 better than  his master1 for he only   
holds a candle in sunshine4          ,a 
,,memorable ,,fancy      ,once ,i saw a 
,devil in a flame of fire1 who arose    
before an ,angel that  sat on a cloud1  
and the ,devil uttered these words3 ,the
 worship of ,god  is1 honouring ,his    
gifts in other men each according to his
 genius1 and  loving the greatest men   
best4 ,those who envy or calumniate     

great men  hate ,god1 for there is no   
other ,god4    ,the ,angel hearing this 
became almost blue1 but mastering       
himself he  grew yellow1 and at last    
white-pink and smiling1 and then        
replied3  ,thou idolater1 is not ,god   
,one8 and is not ,he visible in ,jesus  
,christ8 and has not ,jesus ,christ     
given ,his sanction to the law of ten   
commandments8 and are not all other men 
fools1 sinners1 and nothings8    ,the   
,devil answered3 ,bray a fool in a      
mortar with wheat1 yet shall not  his   
folly be beaten out of him4 ,if ,jesus  
,christ is the greatest man1  you ought 
to love ,him in the greatest degree4    
,now hear how ,he has given  ,his       
sanction to the law of ten commandments4
 ,did ,he not mock at the  ,sabbath1 and
 so mock the ,sabbath's ,god8 murder    
those who were murdered  because of     
,him8 turn away the law from the woman  
taken in adultery1  steal the labour of 
others to support ,him8 bear false      
witness when  ,he omitted making a      

defence before ,pilate8 covet when ,he  
prayed for  ,his disciples1 and when ,he
 bid them shake off the dust of their   
feet  against such as refused to lodge  
them8 ,i tell you1 no virtue can exist  
without breaking these ten commandments4
 ,jesus was all virtue1 and  acted from 
impulse1 not from rules4    ,when he had
 so spoken1 ,i beheld the ,angel1 who   
stretched out his arms  embracing the   
flame of fire1 and he was consumed1 and 
arose as ,elijah4      ,note4--,this    
,angel1 who is now become a ,devil1 is  
my particular  friend2 we often read the
 ,bible together in its infernal or     
diabolical  sense1 which the world shall
 have if they behave well4    ,i have   
also the ,bible of ,hell1 which the     
world shall have whether they  will or  
no4    ,one law for the lion and ox is  
,oppression4          ,a ,,song ,,of    
,,liberty      #a4 ,the ,eternal ,female
 groan'd2 it was heard over all the     
earth3    #b4 ,albion's coast is sick   
silent2 the ,american meadows faint4    

#c4 ,shadows of prophecy shiver along by
 the lakes and the rivers1 and  mutter  
across the ocean4 ,france1 rend down thy
 dungeon6    #d4 ,golden ,spain1 burst  
the barriers of old ,rome6    #e4 ,cast 
thy keys1 ,o ,rome1 into the deep--down 
falling1 even to eternity  down falling2
    #f4 ,and weep6    #g4 ,in her       
trembling hands she took the new-born   
terror1 howling4    #h4 ,on those       
infinite mountains of light now barr'd  
out by the ,atlantic  sea1 the new-born 
fire stood before the starry king4      
#i4 ,flagg'd with grey-brow'd snows and 
thunderous visages1 the jealous  wings  
wav'd over the deep4    #aj4 ,the speary
 hand burn'd aloft2 unbuckled was the   
shield2 forth went  the hand of jealousy
 among the flaming hair1 and hurl'd the 
new-born  wonder through the starry     
night4    #aa4 ,the fire1 the fire is   
falling6    #ab4 ,look up6 look up6 ,o  
citizen of ,london1 enlarge thy         
countenance6 ,o  ,jew1 leave counting   
gold2 return to thy oil and wine6 ,o    

,african1 black  ,african6 7,go1 winged 
thought1 widen his forehead47    #ac4   
,the fiery limbs1 the flaming hair shot 
like the sinking sun into  the ,western 
sea4    #ad4 ,wak'd from his eternal    
sleep1 the hoary element roaring fled   
away4    #ae4 ,down rush'd1 beating his 
wings in vain1 the jealous king1 his    
grey-brow'd councillors1 thunderous     
warriors1 curl'd veterans1 among  helms 
and shields1 and chariots1 horses1      
elephants1 banners1 castles1  slings1   
and rocks4    #af4 ,falling1 rushing1   
ruining2 buried in the ruins1 on        
,urthona's dens4    #ag4 ,all night     
beneath the ruins2 then their sullen    
flames1 faded1  emerge round the gloomy 
king4    #ah4 ,with thunder and fire1   
leading his starry hosts through the    
waste  wilderness1 he promulgates his   
ten commandments1 glancing his beamy    
eyelids over the deep in dark dismay4   
#ai4 ,where the ,son of ,fire in his    
,eastern cloud1 while the ,morning      
plumes her golden breast1    #bj4       

,spurning the clouds written with       
curses1 stamps the stony law  to dust1  
loosing the eternal horses from the dens
 of night1 crying3  ,empire is no more6 
and now the lion and wolf shall cease4  
,,chorus      ,let the ,priests of the  
,raven of ,dawn1 no longer in deadly    
black1 with  hoarse note curse the ,sons
 of ,joy4 ,nor his accepted brethren    
whom1  tyrant1 he calls free1 lay the   
bound or build the roof4 ,nor pale      
religious lechery call that virginity   
that wishes1 but acts not6    ,for      
everything that lives is holy4