BookLOScolophon;
E90| LAMBETH Printed by W Blake
1795
BookLOS3;
E90| LOS
BookLOS3;
E90| Chap. I
BookLOS3.1;
E90| 1: Eno aged Mother,
BookLOS3.2;
E90| Who the chariot of Leutha
guides,
BookLOS3.3;
E90| Since the day of thunders
in old time
BookLOS3.4;
E90| 2: Sitting beneath the
eternal Oak
BookLOS3.5;
E90| Trembled and shook the
stedfast Earth
BookLOS3.6;
E90| And thus her speech broke
forth.
BookLOS3.7;
E90| 3: O Times remote!
BookLOS3.8;
E90| When Love & joy were
adoration:
BookLOS3.9;
E90| And none impure were
deem'd.
BookLOS3.10;
E90| Not Eyeless Covet
BookLOS3.11;
E90| Nor Thin-lip'd Envy
BookLOS3.12;
E90| Nor Bristled Wrath
BookLOS3.13;
E90| Nor Curled Wantonness
BookLOS3.14;
E90| 4: But Covet was poured
full:
BookLOS3.15;
E90| Envy fed with fat of
lambs:
BookLOS3.16;
E90| Wrath with lions gore:
BookLOS3.17;
E90| Wantonness lulld to sleep
BookLOS3.18;
E90| With the virgins lute,
BookLOS3.19;
E90| Or sated with her love.
BookLOS3.20;
E91| 5: Till Covet broke his
locks & bars,
BookLOS3.21;
E91| And slept with open doors:
BookLOS3.22;
E91| Envy sung at the rich mans
feast:
BookLOS3.23;
E91| Wrath was follow'd up and
down
BookLOS3.24;
E91| By a little ewe lamb
BookLOS3.25;
E91| And Wantoness on his own
true love
BookLOS3.26;
E91| Begot a giant race:
BookLOS3.27;
E91| 6: Raging furious the
flames of desire
BookLOS3.28;
E91| Ran thro' heaven &
earth, living flames
BookLOS3.29;
E91| Intelligent, organiz'd:
arm'd
BookLOS3.30;
E91| With destruction &
plagues. In the midst
BookLOS3.31;
E91| The Eternal Prophet bound
in a chain
BookLOS3.32;
E91| Compell'd to watch Urizens
shadow
BookLOS3.33;
E91| 7: Rag'd with curses &
sparkles of fury
BookLOS3.34;
E91| Round the flames roll as
Los hurls his chains
BookLOS3.35;
E91| Mounting up from his fury,
condens'd
BookLOS3.36;
E91| Rolling round & round,
mounting on high
BookLOS3.37;
E91| Into vacuum: into
non-entity.
BookLOS3.38;
E91| Where nothing was! dash'd
wide apart
BookLOS3.39;
E91| His feet stamp the eternal
fierce-raging
BookLOS3.40;
E91| Rivers of wide flame; they
roll round
BookLOS3.41;
E91| And round on all sides
making their way
BookLOS3.42;
E91| Into darkness and shadowy
obscurity
BookLOS3.43;
E91| 8: Wide apart stood the
fires: Los remain'd
BookLOS3.44;
E91| In the void between fire
and fire[.]
BookLOS3.45;
E91| In trembling and horror
they beheld him
BookLOS3.46;
E91| They stood wide apart,
driv'n by his hands
BookLOS3.47;
E91| And his feet which the
nether abyss
BookLOS3.48;
E91| Stamp'd in fury and hot
indignation
BookLOS3.49;
E91| 9: But no light from the
fires all was
BookLOS4.1;
E91| Darkness round Los: heat
was not; for bound up
BookLOS4.2;
E91| Into fiery spheres from
his fur
BookLOS4.3;
E91| The gigantic flames
trembled and hid
BookLOS4.4;
E91| 10: Coldness, darkness,
obstruction, a Solid
BookLOS4.5;
E91| Without fluctuation, hard
as adamant
BookLOS4.6;
E91| Black as marble of Egypt;
impenetrable
BookLOS4.7;
E91| Bound in the fierce raging
Immortal,
BookLOS4.8;
E91| And the seperated fires
froze in
BookLOS4.9;
E91| A vast solid without
fluctuation,
BookLOS4.10;
E91| Bound in his expanding
clear senses
BookLOS4;
E92| Chap: II
BookLOS4.11;
E92| 1: The Immortal stood
frozen amidst
BookLOS4.12;
E92| The vast rock of eternity;
times
BookLOS4.13;
E92| And times; a night of vast
durance:
BookLOS4.14;
E92| Impatient, stifled,
stiffend, hardned.
BookLOS4.15;
E92| 2: Till impatience no
longer could bear
BookLOS4.16;
E92| The hard bondage, rent:
rent, the vast solid
BookLOS4.17;
E92| With a crash from immense
to immense
BookLOS4.18;
E92| 3: Crack'd across into
numberless fragments
BookLOS4.19;
E92| The Prophetic wrath,
strug'ling for vent
BookLOS4.20;
E92| Hurls apart, stamping
furious to dust
BookLOS4.21;
E92| And crumbling with
bursting sobs; heaves
BookLOS4.22;
E92| The black marble on high
into fragments
BookLOS4.23;
E92| 4: Hurl'd apart on all
sides, as a falling
BookLOS4.24;
E92| Rock: the innumerable
fragments away
BookLOS4.25;
E92| Fell asunder; and horrible
vacuum
BookLOS4.26;
E92| Beneath him & on all
sides round.
BookLOS4.27;
E92| 5: Falling, falling! Los
fell & fell
BookLOS4.28;
E92| Sunk precipitant heavy
down down
BookLOS4.29;
E92| Times on times, night on
night, day on day
BookLOS4.30;
E92| Truth has bounds. Error
none: falling, falling:
BookLOS4.31;
E92| Years on years, and ages
on ages
BookLOS4.32;
E92| Still he fell thro' the
void, still a void
BookLOS4.33;
E92| Found for falling day
& night without end.
BookLOS4.34;
E92| For tho' day or night was
not; their spaces
BookLOS4.35;
E92| Were measurd by his
incessant whirls
BookLOS4.36;
E92| In the horrid vacuity
bottomless.
BookLOS4.37;
E92| 6: The Immortal revolving;
indignant
BookLOS4.38;
E92| First in wrath threw his
limbs, like the babe
BookLOS4.39;
E92| New born into our world:
wrath subsided
BookLOS4.40;
E92| And contemplative thoughts
first arose
BookLOS4.41;
E92| Then aloft his head rear'd
in the Abyss
BookLOS4.42;
E92| And his downward-borne
fall. chang'd oblique
BookLOS4.43;
E92| 7: Many ages of groans:
till there grew
BookLOS4.44;
E92| Branchy forms. organizing
the Human
BookLOS4.45;
E92| Into finite inflexible
organs.
BookLOS4.46;
E92| 8: Till in process from
falling he bore
BookLOS4.47;
E92| Sidelong on the purple
air, wafting
BookLOS4.48;
E92| The weak breeze in efforts
oerwearied
BookLOS4.49;
E92| 9: Incessant the falling
Mind labour'd
BookLOS4.50;
E92| Organizing itself: till
the Vacuum
BookLOS4.51;
E92| Became element, pliant to
rise,
BookLOS4.52;
E93| Or to fall, or to swim, or
to fly:
BookLOS4.53;
E93| With ease searching the
dire vacuity
BookLOS4;
E93| Chap: III
BookLOS4.54; E93| 1:
The Lungs heave incessant, dull and heavy
BookLOS4.55;
E93| For as yet were all other
parts formless
BookLOS4.56;
E93| Shiv'ring: clinging around
like a cloud
BookLOS4.57;
E93| Dim & glutinous as the
white Polypus
BookLOS4.58;
E93| Driv'n by waves &
englob'd on the tide.
BookLOS4.59;
E93| 2: And the unformed part
crav'd repose
BookLOS4.60;
E93| Sleep began: the Lungs
heave on the wave
BookLOS4.61;
E93| Weary overweigh'd, sinking
beneath
BookLOS4.62;
E93| In a stifling black fluid
he woke
BookLOS4.63;
E93| 3: He arose on the waters,
but soon
BookLOS4.64;
E93| Heavy falling his organs
like roots
BookLOS4.65;
E93| Shooting out from the
seed, shot beneath,
BookLOS4.66;
E93| And a vast world of waters
around him
BookLOS4.67;
E93| In furious torrents began.
BookLOS4.68;
E93| 4: Then he sunk, &
around his spent Lungs
BookLOS4.69;
E93| Began intricate pipes that
drew in
BookLOS4.70;
E93| The spawn of the waters.
Outbranching
BookLOS5.1;
E93| An immense Fibrous form,
stretching out
BookLOS5.2;
E93| Thro' the bottoms of
immensity raging.
BookLOS5.3;
E93| 5: He rose on the floods:
then he smote
BookLOS5.4;
E93| The wild deep with his
terrible wrath,
BookLOS5.5;
E93| Seperating the heavy and
thin.
BookLOS5.6;
E93| 6: Down the heavy sunk;
cleaving around
BookLOS5.7;
E93| To the fragments of solid:
up rose
BookLOS5.8;
E93| The thin, flowing round
the fierce fires
BookLOS5.9;
E93| That glow'd furious in the
expanse.
BookLOS5;
E93| Chap: IV:
BookLOS5.10;
E93| I: Then Light first began;
from the fires
BookLOS5.11;
E93| Beams, conducted by fluid
so pure .
BookLOS5.12;
E93| Flow'd around the Immense:
Los beheld
BookLOS5.13;
E93| Forthwith writhing upon
the dark void
BookLOS5.14;
E93| The Back bone of Urizen
appear
BookLOS5.15;
E93| Hurtling upon the wind
BookLOS5.16;
E93| Like a serpent! like an
iron chain
BookLOS5.17;
E93| Whirling about in the
Deep.
BookLOS5.18;
E94| 2: Upfolding his Fibres
together
BookLOS5.19;
E94| To a Form of impregnable
strength
BookLOS5.20;
E94| Los astonish'd and
terrified, built
BookLOS5.21;
E94| Furnaces; he formed an
Anvil
BookLOS5.22;
E94| A Hammer of adamant then
began
BookLOS5.23;
E94| The binding of Urizen day
and night
BookLOS5.24;
E94| 3: Circling round the dark
Demon, with howlings
BookLOS5.25;
E94| Dismay & sharp
blightings; the Prophet
BookLOS5.26;
E94| Of Eternity beat on his
iron links
BookLOS5.27;
E94| 4: And first from those
infinite fires
BookLOS5.28;
E94| The light that flow'd down
on the winds
BookLOS5.29;
E94| He siez'd; beating
incessant, condensing
BookLOS5.30;
E94| The subtil particles in an
Orb.
BookLOS5.31;
E94| 5: Roaring indignant the
bright sparks
BookLOS5.32;
E94| Endur'd the vast Hammer;
but unwearied
BookLOS5.33;
E94| Los beat on the Anvil;
till glorious
BookLOS5.34;
E94| An immense Orb of fire he
fram'd
BookLOS5.35;
E94| 6: Oft he quench'd it
beneath in the Deeps
BookLOS5.36;
E94| Then surveyd the all
bright mass. Again
BookLOS5.37;
E94| Siezing fires from the
terrific Orbs
BookLOS5.38;
E94| He heated the round Globe,
then beat[,]
BookLOS5.39;
E94| While roaring his Furnaces
endur'd
BookLOS5.40;
E94| The chaind Orb in their
infinite wombs
BookLOS5.41;
E94| 7: Nine ages completed
their circles
BookLOS5.42;
E94| When Los heated the
glowing mass, casting
BookLOS5.43;
E94| It down into the Deeps:
the Deeps fled
BookLOS5.44;
E94| Away in redounding smoke;
the Sun
BookLOS5.45;
E94| Stood self-balanc'd. And
Los smild with joy.
BookLOS5.46;
E94| He the vast Spine of
Urizen siez'd
BookLOS5.47;
E94| And bound down to the
glowing illusion
BookLOS5.48;
E94| 8: But no light, for the
Deep fled away
BookLOS5.49;
E94| On all sides, and left an
unform'd
BookLOS5.50;
E94| Dark vacuity: here Urizen
lay
BookLOS5.51;
E94| In fierce torments on his
glowing bed
BookLOS5.52;
E94| 9: Till his Brain in a
rock, & his Heart
BookLOS5.53;
E94| In a fleshy slough formed
four rivers
BookLOS5.54;
E94| Obscuring the immense Orb
of fire
BookLOS5.55;
E94| Flowing down into night:
till a Form
BookLOS5.56;
E94| Was completed, a Human
Illusion
BookLOS5.57;
E94| In darkness and deep
clouds involvd.
BookLOS5;
E94| The End of the
BookLOS5.60; E94| Book
of LOS