Title; E70| THE [FIRST] BOOK of URIZEN t193
BUcolophon;
E70|
LAMBETH. Printed by Will
Blake 1794.
BU2;
E70|
PRELUDIUM TO THE
[FIRST] BOOK OF URIZEN t194
BU2.2;
E70| Of the primeval Priests
assum'd power,
BU2.3;
E70| When Eternals spurn'd back
his religion;
BU2.4;
E70| And gave him a place in
the north,
BU2.5;
E70| Obscure, shadowy, void,
solitary.
BU2.6;
E70| Eternals I hear your call
gladly,
BU2.7;
E70| Dictate swift winged
words, & fear not
BU2.8;
E70| To unfold your dark
visions of torment.
BU3;
E70|
Chap: I
BU3.2;
E70| 1. Lo, a shadow of horror
is risen
BU3.3;
E70| In Eternity! Unknown,
unprolific!
BU3.4;
E70| Self-closd, all-repelling:
what Demon
BU3.5;
E70| Hath form'd this
abominable void
BU3.6;
E70| This soul-shudd'ring
vacuum?--Some said
BU3.7;
E70| "It is Urizen",
But unknown, abstracted
BU3.8;
E70| Brooding secret, the dark
power hid.
BU3.9;
E70| 2. Times on times he
divided, & measur'd
BU3.10;
E70| Space by space in his
ninefold darkness
BU3.11;
E70| Unseen, unknown! changes
appeard
BU3.12;
E70| In his desolate mountains
rifted furious t195
BU3.13; E70|
By the black winds of perturbation
BU3.14;
E70| 3. For he strove in
battles dire
BU3.15;
E70| In unseen conflictions
with shapes
BU3.16;
E70| Bred from his forsaken
wilderness,
BU3.17;
E70| Of beast, bird, fish,
serpent & element
BU3.18;
E70| Combustion, blast, vapour
and cloud.
BU3.19;
E71| 4. Dark revolving in
silent activity:
BU3.20;
E71| Unseen in tormenting
passions;
BU3.21;
E71| An activity unknown and
horrible;
BU3.22;
E71| A self-contemplating
shadow,
BU3.23;
E71| In enormous labours
occupied
BU3.24;
E71| 5. But Eternals beheld his
vast forests
BU3.25;
E71| Age on ages he lay,
clos'd, unknown
BU3.26;
E71| Brooding shut in the deep;
all avoid
BU3.27;
E71| The petrific abominable
chaos
BU3.28;
E71| 6. His cold horrors
silent, dark Urizen
BU3.29;
E71| Prepar'd: his ten
thousands of thunders
BU3.30;
E71| Rang'd in gloom'd array
stretch out across
BU3.31;
E71| The dread world, & the
rolling of wheels
BU3.32;
E71| As of swelling seas, sound
in his clouds
BU3.33;
E71| In his hills of stor'd
snows, in his mountains
BU3.34;
E71| Of hail & ice; voices
of terror,
BU3.35;
E71| Are heard, like thunders
of autumn,
BU3.36;
E71| When the cloud blazes over
the harvests
BU3;
E71| Chap: II.
t196
BU3.38;
E71| 1. Earth was not: nor
globes of attraction
BU3.39;
E71| The will of the Immortal
expanded
BU3.40;
E71| Or contracted his all
flexible senses.
BU3.41;
E71| Death was not, but eternal
life sprung
BU3.42;
E71| 2. The sound of a trumpet
the heavens
BU3.43;
E71| Awoke & vast clouds of
blood roll'd
BU3.44;
E71| Round the dim rocks of
Urizen, so nam'd
BU3.45;
E71| That solitary one in
Immensity
BU3.46;
E71| 3. Shrill the trumpet:
& myriads of Eternity, t197
BU4.1;
E71|
Muster around the bleak
desarts
BU4.2;
E71| Now fill'd with clouds,
darkness & waters
BU4.3;
E71| That roll'd perplex'd
labring & utter'd
BU4.4;
E71| Words articulate, bursting
in thunders
BU4.5;
E71| That roll'd on the tops of
his mountains
BU4.6;
E71| 4: From the depths of dark
solitude. From
BU4.7;
E71| The eternal abode in my
holiness,
BU4.8;
E71| Hidden set apart in my
stern counsels
BU4.9;
E71| Reserv'd for the days of
futurity,
BU4.10;
E71| I have sought for a joy
without pain,
BU4.11;
E71| For a solid without
fluctuation
BU4.12;
E71| Why will you die O
Eternals?
BU4.13;
E71| Why live in unquenchable
burnings?
BU4.14;
E72| 5 First I fought with the
fire; consum'd
BU4.15;
E72| Inwards, into a deep world
within:
BU4.16;
E72| A void immense, wild dark
& deep,
BU4.17;
E72| Where nothing was: Natures
wide womb
BU4.18;
E72| And self balanc'd
stretch'd o'er the void
BU4.19;
E72| I alone, even I! the winds
merciless
BU4.20;
E72| Bound; but condensing, in
torrents
BU4.21;
E72| They fall & fall;
strong I repell'd
BU4.22;
E72| The vast waves, &
arose on the waters
BU4.23;
E72| A wide world of solid
obstruction
BU4.24;
E72| 6. Here alone I in books
formd of metals
BU4.25;
E72| Have written the secrets
of wisdom
BU4.26;
E72| The secrets of dark
contemplation
BU4.27;
E72| By fightings and conflicts
dire,
BU4.28;
E72| With terrible monsters
Sin-bred:
BU4.29;
E72| Which the bosoms of all
inhabit;
BU4.30;
E72| Seven deadly Sins of the
soul. t199
BU4.31;
E72| 7. Lo! I unfold my
darkness: and on
BU4.32;
E72| This rock, place with
strong hand the Book
BU4.33;
E72| Of eternal brass, written
in my solitude.
BU4.34;
E72| 8. Laws of peace, of love,
of unity:
BU4.35;
E72| Of pity, compassion,
forgiveness.
BU4.36;
E72| Let each chuse one
habitation:
BU4.37;
E72| His ancient infinite
mansion:
BU4.38;
E72| One command, one joy one
desire,
BU4.39;
E72| One curse, one weight, one
measure
BU4.40;
E72| One King, one God, one
Law.
BU4.41;
E72| Chap: III.
t200
BU4.42;
E72| 1. The voice ended, they
saw his pale visage
BU4.43;
E72| Emerge from the darkness;
his hand
BU4.44;
E72| On the rock of eternity
unclasping
BU4.45;
E72| The Book of brass. Rage
siez'd the strong
BU4.46;
E72| 2. Rage, fury, intense
indignation
BU4.47;
E72| In cataracts of fire blood
& gall
BU4.48;
E72| In whirlwinds of
sulphurous smoke:
BU4.49;
E72| And enormous forms of
energy;
BU4.50;
E72| All the seven deadly sins
of the soul
BU5.1;
E72|
In living creations
appear'd t201
BU5.2; E72|
In the flames of eternal fury.
BU5.3;
E73| 3. Sund'ring, dark'ning,
thund'ring!
BU5.4;
E73| Rent away with a terrible
crash
BU5.5;
E73| Eternity roll'd wide apart
BU5.6;
E73| Wide asunder
rolling
BU5.7;
E73| Mountainous all
around
BU5.8;
E73| Departing; departing;
departing:
BU5.9;
E73| Leaving ruinous fragments
of life
BU5.10;
E73| Hanging frowning cliffs
& all between
BU5.11;
E73| An ocean of voidness
unfathomable.
BU5.12;
E73| 4. The roaring fires ran
o'er the heav'ns
BU5.13;
E73| In whirlwinds &
cataracts of blood
BU5.14;
E73| And o'er the dark desarts
of Urizen
BU5.15;
E73| Fires pour thro' the void
on all sides
BU5.16;
E73| On Urizens self-begotten
armies. t202
BU5.17;
E73| 5. But no light from the
fires. all was darkness
BU5.18;
E73| In the flames of Eternal
fury
BU5.19;
E73| 6. In fierce anguish &
quenchless flames
BU5.20;
E73| To the desarts and rocks
He ran raging t203
BU5.21; E73|
To hide, but He could not: combining
BU5.22;
E73| He dug mountains &
hills in vast strength, t204
BU5.23;
E73| He piled them in incessant
labour,
BU5.24;
E73| In howlings & pangs
& fierce madness
BU5.25;
E73| Long periods in burning
fires labouring
BU5.26;
E73| Till hoary, and age-broke,
and aged,
BU5.27;
E73| In despair and the shadows
of death.
BU5.28;
E73| 7. And a roof, vast
petrific around,
BU5.29;
E73| On all sides He fram'd:
like a womb;
BU5.30;
E73| Where thousands of rivers
in veins
BU5.31;
E73| Of blood pour down the
mountains to cool
BU5.32;
E73| The eternal fires beating
without
BU5.33;
E73| From Eternals; & like
a black globe
BU5.34;
E73| View'd by sons of
Eternity, standing
BU5.35;
E73| On the shore of the
infinite ocean
BU5.36;
E73| Like a human heart
strugling & beating
BU5.37;
E73| The vast world of Urizen
appear'd.
BU5.38;
E73| 8. And Los round the dark
globe of Urizen,
BU5.39;
E73| Kept watch for Eternals to
confine,
BU5.40;
E73| The obscure separation
alone;
BU5.41;
E73| For Eternity stood wide
apart,
BU6.1;
E73|
As the stars are apart
from the earth
BU6.2;
E73| 9. Los wept howling around
the dark Demon:
BU6.3;
E73| And cursing his lot; for
in anguish,
BU6.4;
E74| Urizen was rent from his
side;
BU6.5;
E74| And a fathomless void for
his feet;
BU6.6;
E74| And intense fires for his
dwelling.
BU6.7;
E74| 10. But Urizen laid in a
stony sleep
BU6.8;
E74| Unorganiz'd, rent from
Eternity t205
BU6.9;
E74| 11. The Eternals said:
What is this? Death
BU6.10;
E74| Urizen is a clod of clay.
BU7.1;
E74|
12: Los howld in a dismal
stupor,
BU7.2;
E74| Groaning! gnashing!
groaning!
BU7.3;
E74| Till the wrenching apart
was healed
BU7.4;
E74| 13: But the wrenching of
Urizen heal'd not
BU7.5;
E74| Cold, featureless, flesh
or clay,
BU7.6;
E74| Rifted with direful
changes
BU7.7;
E74| He lay in a dreamless
night
BU7.8;
E74| 14: Till Los rouz'd his
fires, affrighted
BU7.9;
E74| At the formless
unmeasurable death.
BU8;
E74|
Chap: IV:[a]
BU8.2;
E74| 1: Los smitten with
astonishment
BU8.3;
E74| Frightend at the hurtling
bones
BU8.4;
E74| 2: And at the surging
sulphureous
BU8.5;
E74| Perturbed Immortal mad
raging
BU8.6;
E74| 3: In whirlwinds &
pitch & nitre
BU8.7;
E74| Round the furious limbs of
Los
BU8.8;
E74| 4: And Los formed nets
& gins
BU8.9;
E74| And threw the nets round
about
BU8.10;
E74| 5: He watch'd in shuddring
fear
BU8.11;
E74| The dark changes &
bound every change
BU8.12;
E74| With rivets of iron &
brass;
BU8.13;
E74| 6. And these were the
changes of Urizen.
BU10; E74|
Chap: IV.[b]
BU10.2;
E74| 1. Ages on ages roll'd
over him!
BU10.3;
E74| In stony sleep ages roll'd
over him!
BU10.4;
E74| Like a dark waste
stretching chang'able
BU10.5;
E74| By earthquakes riv'n,
belching sullen fires
BU10.6;
E74| On ages roll'd ages in
ghastly
BU10.7;
E75| Sick torment; around him
in whirlwinds
BU10.8;
E75| Of darkness the eternal
Prophet howl'd
BU10.9;
E75| Beating still on his
rivets of iron
BU10.10;
E75| Pouring sodor of iron;
dividing
BU10.11;
E75| The horrible night into
watches.
BU10.12;
E75| 2. And Urizen (so his
eternal name)
BU10.13;
E75| His prolific delight
obscurd more & more
BU10.14;
E75| In dark secresy hiding in
surgeing
BU10.15;
E75| Sulphureous fluid his
phantasies.
BU10.16;
E75| The Eternal Prophet heavd
the dark bellows,
BU10.17;
E75| And turn'd restless the
tongs; and the hammer
BU10.18;
E75| Incessant beat; forging
chains new & new
BU10.19;
E75| Numb'ring with links.
hours, days & years
BU10.20;
E75| 3. The eternal mind
bounded began to roll
BU10.21;
E75| Eddies of wrath ceaseless
round & round,
BU10.22;
E75| And the sulphureous foam
surgeing thick
BU10.23;
E75| Settled, a lake, bright,
& shining clear:
BU10.24;
E75| White as the snow on the
mountains cold.
BU10.25;
E75| 4. Forgetfulness,
dumbness, necessity!
BU10.26;
E75| In chains of the mind
locked up,
BU10.27;
E75| Like fetters of ice
shrinking together
BU10.28;
E75| Disorganiz'd, rent from
Eternity,
BU10.29;
E75| Los beat on his fetters of
iron;
BU10.30;
E75| And heated his furnaces
& pour'd
BU10.31;
E75| Iron sodor and sodor of
brass
BU10.32;
E75| 5. Restless turnd the
immortal inchain'd
BU10.33;
E75| Heaving dolorous!
anguish'd! unbearable
BU10.34;
E75| Till a roof shaggy wild
inclos'd
BU10.35;
E75| In an orb, his fountain of
thought.
BU10.36;
E75| 6. In a horrible dreamful
slumber;
BU10.37;
E75| Like the linked infernal
chain;
BU10.38;
E75| A vast Spine writh'd in
torment
BU10.39;
E75| Upon the winds; shooting
pain'd
BU10.40;
E75| Ribs, like a bending
cavern
BU10.41;
E75| And bones of solidness,
froze
BU10.42;
E75| Over all his nerves of
joy.
BU10.43;
E75| And a first Age passed
over,
BU10.44;
E75| And a state of dismal woe.
BU11.1;
E75|
7. From the caverns of his
jointed Spine,
BU11.2;
E75| Down sunk with fright a
red
BU11.3;
E75| Round globe hot burning
deep
BU11.4;
E75| Deep down into the Abyss:
BU11.5;
E76| Panting: Conglobing,
Trembling
BU11.6;
E76| Shooting out ten thousand
branches
BU11.7;
E76| Around his solid
bones.
BU11.8;
E76| And a second Age passed
over,
BU11.9;
E76| And a state of dismal woe.
BU11.10;
E76| 8. In harrowing fear
rolling round;
BU11.11;
E76| His nervous brain shot
branches
BU11.12;
E76| Round the branches of his
heart.
BU11.13;
E76| On high into two little
orbs
BU11.14;
E76| And fixed in two little
caves
BU11.15;
E76| Hiding carefully from the
wind,
BU11.16;
E76| His Eyes beheld the
deep,
BU11.17;
E76| And a third Age passed
over:
BU11.18;
E76| And a state of dismal woe.
BU11.19;
E76| 9. The pangs of hope
began,
BU11.20;
E76| In heavy pain striving,
struggling.
BU11.21;
E76| Two Ears in close
volutions.
BU11.22;
E76| From beneath his orbs of
vision
BU11.23;
E76| Shot spiring out and
petrified
BU11.24;
E76| As they grew. And a fourth
Age passed
BU11.25;
E76| And a state of dismal woe.
BU11.26;
E76| 10. In ghastly torment
sick;
BU11.27;
E76| Hanging upon the wind;
BU13.1;
E76|
Two Nostrils bent down to
the deep.
BU13.2;
E76| And a fifth Age passed
over;
BU13.3;
E76| And a state of dismal woe.
BU13.4;
E76| 11. In ghastly torment
sick;
BU13.5;
E76| Within his ribs bloated
round,
BU13.6;
E76| A craving Hungry
Cavern;
BU13.7;
E76| Thence arose his channeld
Throat,
BU13.8;
E76| And like a red flame a
Tongue
BU13.9;
E76| Of thirst & of hunger
appeard.
BU13.10;
E76| And a sixth Age passed
over:
BU13.11;
E76| And a state of dismal woe.
BU13.12;
E76| 12. Enraged & stifled
with torment
BU13.13;
E76| He threw his right Arm to
the north
BU13.14;
E76| His left Arm to the
south
BU13.15;
E76| Shooting out in anguish
deep,
BU13.16;
E76| And his Feet stampd the
nether Abyss
BU13.17;
E76| In trembling & howling
& dismay.
BU13.18;
E76| And a seventh Age passed
over:
BU13.19;
E76| And a state of dismal woe.
BU13; E77|
Chap: V.
BU13.20;
E77| I. In terrors Los shrunk
from his task:
BU13.21;
E77| His great hammer fell from
his hand:
BU13.22;
E77| His fires beheld, and
sickening,
BU13.23;
E77| Hid their strong limbs in
smoke.
BU13.24;
E77| For with noises ruinous
loud;
BU13.25;
E77| With hurtlings &
clashings & groans
BU13.26;
E77| The Immortal endur'd his
chains,
BU13.27;
E77| Tho' bound in a deadly
sleep.
BU13.28;
E77| 2. All the myriads of
Eternity:
BU13.29;
E77| All the wisdom & joy
of life:
BU13.30;
E77| Roll like a sea around
him,
BU13.31;
E77| Except what his little
orbs
BU13.32;
E77| Of sight by degrees
unfold.
BU13.33;
E77| 3. And now his eternal
life
BU13.34;
E77| Like a dream was
obliterated
BU13.35;
E77| 4. Shudd'ring, the Eternal
Prophet smote
BU13.36;
E77| With a stroke, from his
north to south region
BU13.37;
E77| The bellows & hammer
are silent now
BU13.38;
E77| A nerveless silence, his
prophetic voice
BU13.39;
E77| Siez'd; a cold solitude
& dark void
BU13.40;
E77| The Eternal Prophet &
Urizen clos'd
BU13.41;
E77| 5. Ages on ages rolld over
them
BU13.42;
E77| Cut off from life &
light frozen
BU13.43;
E77| Into horrible forms of
deformity
BU13.44;
E77| Los suffer'd his fires to
decay
BU13.45;
E77| Then he look'd back with
anxious desire
BU13.46;
E77| But the space undivided by
existence
BU13.47;
E77| Struck horror into his
soul.
BU13.48;
E77| 6. Los wept obscur'd with
mourning:
BU13.49;
E77| His bosom earthquak'd with
sighs;
BU13.50;
E77| He saw Urizen deadly
black,
BU13.51;
E77| In his chains bound, &
Pity began,
BU13.52;
E77| 7. In anguish dividing
& dividing
BU13.53;
E77| For pity divides the
soul
BU13.54;
E77| In pangs eternity on
eternity
BU13.55;
E77| Life in cataracts pourd
down his cliffs
BU13.56;
E77| The void shrunk the lymph
into Nerves
BU13.57;
E77| Wand'ring wide on the
bosom of night
BU13.58;
E77| And left a round globe of
blood
BU13.59;
E77| Trembling upon the Void
BU15.1;
E78|
Thus the Eternal Prophet
was divided
BU15.2;
E78| Before the death-image of
Urizen
BU15.3;
E78| For in changeable clouds
and darkness
BU15.4;
E78| In a winterly night
beneath,
BU15.5;
E78| The Abyss of Los stretch'd
immense:
BU15.6;
E78| And now seen, now
obscur'd, to the eyes
BU15.7;
E78| Of Eternals, the visions
remote
BU15.8;
E78| Of the dark seperation
appear'd.
BU15.9;
E78| As glasses discover
Worlds
BU15.10;
E78| In the endless Abyss of
space,
BU15.11;
E78| So the expanding eyes of
Immortals
BU15.12;
E78| Beheld the dark visions of
Los,
BU15.13;
E78| And the globe of life
blood trembling.
BU18.1;
E78|
8. The globe of life blood
trembled
BU18.2;
E78| Branching out into
roots;
BU18.3;
E78| Fib'rous, writhing upon
the winds;
BU18.4;
E78| Fibres of blood, milk and
tears;
BU18.5;
E78| In pangs, eternity on
eternity.
BU18.6;
E78| At length in tears &
cries imbodied
BU18.7;
E78| A female form trembling
and pale
BU18.8;
E78| Waves before his deathy
face
BU18.9;
E78| 9. All Eternity shudderd
at sight
BU18.10;
E78| Of the first female now
separate
BU18.11;
E78| Pale as a cloud of
snow
BU18.12;
E78| Waving before the face of
Los
BU18.13;
E78| 10. Wonder, awe, fear,
astonishment,
BU18.14;
E78| Petrify the eternal
myriads;
BU18.15;
E78| At the first female form
now separate
BU19.1;
E78|
They call'd her Pity, and
fled
BU19.2;
E78| 11. "Spread a Tent,
with strong curtains around them
BU19.3;
E78| "Let cords &
stakes bind in the Void
BU19.4;
E78| That Eternals may no more
behold them"
BU19.5;
E78| 12. They began to weave
curtains of darkness
BU19.6;
E78| They erected large pillars
round the Void
BU19.7;
E78| With golden hooks fastend
in the pillars
BU19.8;
E78| With infinite labour the
Eternals
BU19.9;
E78| A woof wove, and called it
Science
BU19; E79|
Chap: VI.
BU19.11;
E79| 1. But Los saw the Female
& pitied
BU19.12;
E79| He embrac'd her, she wept,
she refus'd
BU19.13;
E79| In perverse and cruel
delight
BU19.14;
E79| She fled from his arms,
yet he followd
BU19.15;
E79| 2. Eternity shudder'd when
they saw,
BU19.16;
E79| Man begetting his
likeness,
BU19.17;
E79| On his own divided image.
BU19.18;
E79| 3. A time passed over, the
Eternals
BU19.19;
E79| Began to erect the
tent;
BU19.20;
E79| When Enitharmon
sick,
BU19.21;
E79| Felt a Worm within her
womb.
BU19.22;
E79| 4. Yet helpless it lay
like a Worm
BU19.23;
E79| In the trembling
womb
BU19.24;
E79| To be moulded into
existence
BU19.25;
E79| 5. All day the worm lay on
her bosom
BU19.26;
E79| All night within her
womb
BU19.27;
E79| The worm lay till it grew
to a serpent
BU19.28;
E79| With dolorous hissings
& poisons
BU19.29;
E79| Round Enitharmons loins
folding,
BU19.30;
E79| 6. Coild within
Enitharmons womb
BU19.31;
E79| The serpent grew casting
its scales,
BU19.32;
E79| With sharp pangs the
hissings began
BU19.33;
E79| To change to a grating
cry,
BU19.34;
E79| Many sorrows and dismal
throes,
BU19.35;
E79| Many forms of fish, bird
& beast,
BU19.36;
E79| Brought forth an Infant
form
BU19.37;
E79| Where was a worm before.
BU19.38;
E79| 7. The Eternals their tent
finished
BU19.39;
E79| Alarm'd with these gloomy
visions
BU19.40;
E79| When Enitharmon
groaning
BU19.41;
E79| Produc'd a man Child to
the light.
BU19.42;
E79| 8. A shriek ran thro'
Eternity:
BU19.43;
E79| And a paralytic
stroke;
BU19.44;
E79| At the birth of the Human
shadow.
BU19.45;
E79| 9. Delving earth in his
resistless way;
BU19.46;
E79| Howling, the Child with
fierce flames
BU19.47;
E79| Issu'd from Enitharmon.
BU19.48;
E79| 10. The Eternals, closed
the tent
BU19.49;
E79| They beat down the stakes
the cords
BU20.1;
E80|
Stretch'd for a work of
eternity;
BU20.2;
E80| No more Los beheld
Eternity.
BU20.3;
E80| 11. In his hands he siez'd
the infant
BU20.4;
E80| He bathed him in springs
of sorrow
BU20.5;
E80| He gave him to Enitharmon.
BU20; E80|
Chap. VII.
BU20.7;
E80| 1. They named the child
Orc, he grew
BU20.8;
E80| Fed with milk of
Enitharmon
BU20.9;
E80| 2. Los awoke her; O sorrow
& pain!
BU20.10;
E80| A tight'ning girdle
grew,
BU20.11;
E80| Around his bosom. In
sobbings
BU20.12;
E80| He burst the girdle in
twain,
BU20.13;
E80| But still another
girdle
BU20.14;
E80| Opressd his bosom, In
sobbings
BU20.15;
E80| Again he burst it.
Again
BU20.16;
E80| Another girdle
succeeds
BU20.17;
E80| The girdle was form'd by
day;
BU20.18;
E80| By night was burst in
twain.
BU20.19;
E80| 3. These falling down on
the rock
BU20.20;
E80| Into an iron
Chain
BU20.21;
E80| In each other link by link
lock'd
BU20.22;
E80| 4. They took Orc to the
top of a mountain.
BU20.23;
E80| O how Enitharmon
wept!
BU20.24;
E80| They chain'd his young
limbs to the rock
BU20.25;
E80| With the Chain of
Jealousy
BU20.26;
E80| Beneath Urizens deathful
shadow
BU20.27;
E80| 5. The dead heard the
voice of the child
BU20.28;
E80| And began to awake from
sleep
BU20.29;
E80| All things. heard the
voice of the child
BU20.30;
E80| And began to awake to
life.
BU20.31;
E80| 6. And Urizen craving with
hunger
BU20.32;
E80| Stung with the odours of
Nature
BU20.33;
E80| Explor'd his dens around
BU20.34;
E80| 7. He form'd a line &
a plummet
BU20.35;
E80| To divide the Abyss
beneath.
BU20.36;
E80| He form'd a dividing rule:
BU20.37;
E80| 8. He formed scales to
weigh;
BU20.38;
E80| He formed massy
weights;
BU20.39;
E80| He formed a brazen
quadrant;
BU20.40;
E81| He formed golden
compasses
BU20.41;
E81| And began to explore the
Abyss
BU20.42;
E81| And he planted a garden of
fruits
BU20.43;
E81| 9. But Los encircled
Enitharmon
BU20.44;
E81| With fires of
Prophecy
BU20.45;
E81| From the sight of Urizen
& Orc.
BU20.46;
E81| 10. And she bore an
enormous race
BU20; E81|
Chap. VIII.
BU20.48;
E81| 1. Urizen explor'd his
dens
BU20.49;
E81| Mountain, moor, &
wilderness,
BU20.50;
E81| With a globe of fire
lighting his journey
BU20.51;
E81| A fearful journey,
annoy'd
BU20.52;
E81| By cruel enormities: forms
BU23.1;
E81|
Of life on his forsaken
mountains
BU23.2;
E81| 2. And his world teemd
vast enormities
BU23.3;
E81| Frightning; faithless;
fawning
BU23.4;
E81| Portions of life;
similitudes
BU23.5;
E81| Of a foot, or a hand, or a
head
BU23.6;
E81| Or a heart, or an eye,
they swam mischevous
BU23.7;
E81| Dread terrors! delighting
in blood
BU23.;
E81| 3. Most Urizen sicken'd to
see
BU23.9;
E81| His eternal creations
appear
BU23.10;
E81| Sons & daughters of
sorrow on mountains
BU23.11;
E81| Weeping! wailing! first
Thiriel appear'd
BU23.12;
E81| Astonish'd at his own
existence
BU23.13;
E81| Like a man from a cloud
born, & Utha
BU23.14;
E81| From the waters emerging,
laments!
BU23.15;
E81| Grodna rent the deep earth
howling
BU23.16;
E81| Amaz'd! his heavens
immense cracks
BU23.17;
E81| Like the ground parch'd
with heat; then Fuzon
BU23.18;
E81| Flam'd out! first
begotten, last born.
BU23.19;
E81| All his eternal sons in
like manner
BU23.20;
E81| His daughters from green
herbs & cattle
BU23.21;
E81| From monsters, & worms
of the pit.
BU23.22;
E81| 4. He in darkness clos'd,
view'd all his race,
BU23.23;
E81| And his soul sicken'd! he
curs'd
BU23.24;
E81| Both sons & daughters;
for he saw
BU23.25;
E81| That no flesh nor spirit
could keep
BU23.26;
E81| His iron laws one moment.
BU23.27;
E81| 5. For he saw that life
liv'd upon death
To facsimile of plate 22
BU25.1;
E82|
The Ox in the slaughter
house moans
BU25.2;
E82| The Dog at the wintry
door
BU25.3;
E82| And he wept, & he
called it Pity
BU25.4;
E82| And his tears flowed down
on the winds
BU25.5;
E82| 6. Cold he wander'd on
high, over their cities
BU25.6;
E82| In weeping & pain
& woe!
BU25.7;
E82| And where-ever he wanderd
in sorrows
BU25.8;
E82| Upon the aged
heavens
BU25.9;
E82| A cold shadow follow'd
behind him
BU25.10;
E82| Like a spiders web, moist,
cold, & dim
BU25.11;
E82| Drawing out from his
sorrowing soul
BU25.12;
E82| The dungeon-like heaven
dividing.
BU25.13;
E82| Where ever the footsteps
of Urizen
BU25.14;
E82| Walk'd over the cities in
sorrow.
BU25.15;
E82| 7. Till a Web dark &
cold, throughout all
BU25.16;
E82| The tormented element
stretch'd
BU25.17;
E82| From the sorrows of
Urizens soul
BU25.18;
E82| And the Web is a Female in
embrio t208
BU25.19; E82| None
could break the Web, no wings of fire.
BU25.20;
E82| 8. So twisted the cords,
& so knotted
BU25.21;
E82| The meshes: twisted like
to the human brain
BU25.22;
E82| 9. And all calld it, The
Net of Religion
BU25; E82|
Chap: IX
BU25.24;
E82| 1. Then the Inhabitants of
those Cities:
BU25.25;
E82| Felt their Nerves change
into Marrow
BU25.26;
E82| And hardening Bones
began
BU25.27;
E82| In swift diseases and
torments,
BU25.28;
E82| In throbbings &
shootings & grindings
BU25.29;
E82| Thro' all the coasts; till
weaken'd
BU25.30;
E82| The Senses inward rush'd
shrinking,
BU25.31;
E82| Beneath the dark net of
infection.
BU25.32;
E82| 2. Till the shrunken eyes
clouded over
BU25.33;
E82| Discernd not the woven
hipocrisy
BU25.34;
E82| But the streaky slime in
their heavens
BU25.35;
E82| Brought together by
narrowing perceptions
BU25.36;
E82| Appeard transparent air;
for their eyes
BU25.37;
E82| Grew small like the eyes
of a man
BU25.38;
E82| And in reptile forms
shrinking together
BU25.39;
E82| Of seven feet stature they
remaind
BU25.40;
E83| 3. Six days they shrunk up
from existence
BU25.41;
E83| And on the seventh day
they rested
BU25.42;
E83| And they bless'd the
seventh day, in sick hope:
BU25.43;
E83| And forgot their eternal
life
BU25.44;
E83| 4. And their thirty cities
divided
BU25.45;
E83| In form of a human
heart
BU25.46;
E83| No more could they rise at
will
BU25.47;
E83| In the infinite void, but
bound down
BU25.48;
E83| To earth by their
narrowing perceptions
BU28.1;
E83|
They lived a period of
years
BU28.2;
E83| Then left a noisom
body
BU28.3;
E83| To the jaws of devouring
darkness
BU28.4;
E83| 5. And their children
wept, & built
BU28.5;
E83| Tombs in the desolate
places,
BU28.6;
E83| And form'd laws of
prudence, and call'd them
BU28.7;
E83| The eternal laws of God
BU28.8;
E83| 6. And the thirty cities
remaind
BU28.9;
E83| Surrounded by salt floods,
now call'd
BU28.10;
E83| Africa: its name was then
Egypt.
BU28.11;
E83| 7. The remaining sons of
Urizen
BU28.12;
E83| Beheld their brethren
shrink together
BU28.13;
E83| Beneath the Net of
Urizen;
BU28.14;
E83| Perswasion was in
vain;
BU28.15;
E83| For the ears of the
inhabitants,
BU28.16;
E83| Were wither'd, &
deafen'd, & cold:
BU28.17;
E83| And their eyes could not
discern,
BU28.18;
E83| Their brethren of other
cities.
BU28.19;
E83| 8. So Fuzon call'd all
together
BU28.20;
E83| The remaining children of
Urizen:
BU28.21;
E83| And they left the
pendulous earth:
BU28.22;
E83| They called it Egypt,
& left it.
BU28.23;
E83| 9. And the salt ocean
rolled englob'd
BU28.24;
E83| The End of the
[first] book of Urizen