<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=38304" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Preludium</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nameless shadowy female rose form out the breast of Orc,<br>Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon;<br>And thus her voice arose:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘O mother Enitharmon, wilt thou bring forth other sons,<br>To cause my name to vanish, that my place may not be found?<br>For I am faint with travel!<br>Like the dark cloud disburden’d in the day of dismal thunder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘My roots are brandish’d in the heavens, my fruits in earth beneath<br>Surge, foam and labour into life, first born & first consum’d!<br>Consumed and consuming!<br>Then why shouldst thou, accused mother, bring me into life?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I warp my turban of thick clouds around my lab’ring head,<br>And fold the sheety waters as a mantle round my limbs.<br>Yet the red sun and moon<br>And all the overflowing stars rain down prolific pains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Unwilling I look up to heaven! unwilling count the stars!<br>Sitting in fathomless abyss of my immortal shrine,<br>I seize their burning power<br>And bring forth howling terrors, all devouring fiery kings,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Devouring & devoured, roaming in dark and desolate mountains<br>in forests of eternal death, shrieking in hollow trees.<br>Ah mother Enitharmon!<br>Stamp not with solid form the vig’rous progeny of fires.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I bring forth form my teeming bosom myriads of flames,<br>And thou dost stamp them with a signet; then they roam abroad<br>And leave me void as death.<br>Ah! I am drown’d in shady woe, and visionary joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘And who shall bind the infinite with an eternal band?<br>To compass it with swaddling bands? And who shall cherish it<br>With milk and honey?<br>I see it smile & I roll inward & my voice is past.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She ceast, & roll’d her shady clouds<br>Into the secret palce.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Blake">William Blake</a> from <i>Europe a Prophecy</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=38304" data-title="Preludium de William Blake" data-description="The nameless shadowy female rose form out the breast of Orc,/Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon;/And thus her voice arose:/‘O mother Enitharmon, wilt thou bring forth other sons,/To cause my name to vanish, that my place may n..."></div> </div> </div>

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