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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=38414" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Book of Los</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHAP I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1: Eno aged Mother,<br>Who the chariot of Leutha guides,<br>Since the day of thunders in old time</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2: Sitting beneath the eternal Oak<br>Trembled and shook the stedfast Earth<br>And thus her speech broke forth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3: O Times remote!<br>When Love & joy were adoration:<br>And none impure were deem’d.<br>Not Eyeless Covet<br>Nor Thin-lip’d Envy<br>Nor Bristled Wrath<br>Nor Curled Wantonness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4: But Covet was poured full:<br>Envy fed with fat of lambs:<br>Wrath with lions gore:<br>Wantonness lulld to sleep<br>With the virgins lute,<br>Or sated with her love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">5: Till Covet broke his locks & bars,<br>And slept with open doors:<br>Envy sung at the rich mans feast:<br>Wrath was follow’d up and down<br>By a little ewe lamb<br>And Wantoness on his own true love<br>Begot a giant race:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">6: Raging furious the flames of desire<br>Ran thro' heaven & earth, living flames<br>Intelligent, organiz’d: arm’d<br>With destruction & plagues. In the midst<br>The Eternal Prophet bound in a chain<br>Compell'd to watch Urizens shadow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">7: Rag'd with curses & sparkles of fury<br>Round the flames roll as Los hurls his chains<br>Mounting up from his fury, condens’d<br>Rolling round & round, mounting on high<br>Into vacuum: into non-entity.<br>Where nothing was! dash'd wide apart<br>His feet stamp the eternal fierce-raging<br>Rivers of wide flame; they roll round<br>And round on all sides making their way<br>Into darkness and shadowy obscurity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">8: Wide apart stood the fires: Los remain’d<br>In the void between fire and fire.<br>In trembling and horror they beheld him<br>They stood wide apart, driv’n by his hands<br>And his feet which the nether abyss<br>Stamp’d in fury and hot indignation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">9: But no light from the fires all was<br>Darkness round Los: heat was not; for bound up<br>Into fiery spheres from his fury<br>The gigantic flames trembled and hid</div><div style="margin:10px 0">10: Coldness, darkness, obstruction, a Solid<br>Without fluctuation, hard as adamant<br>Black as marble of Egypt; impenetrable<br>Bound in the fierce raging Immortal.<br>And the seperated fires froze in<br>A vast solid without fluctuation,<br>Bound in his expanding clear senses</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHAP II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1: The Immortal stood frozen amidst<br>The vast rock of eternity; times<br>And times; a night of vast durance:<br>Impatient, stifled, stiffend, hardned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2: Till impatience no longer could bear<br>The hard bondage, rent: rent, the vast solid<br>With a crash from immense to immense</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3: Crack’d across into numberless fragments<br>The Prophetic wrath, strug’ling for vent<br>Hurls apart, stamping furious to dust<br>And crumbling with bursting sobs; heaves<br>The black marble on high into fragments</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4: Hurl’d apart on all sides, as a falling<br>Rock: the innumerable fragments away<br>Fell asunder; and horrible vacuum<br>Beneath him & on all sides round.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">5: Falling, falling! Los fell & fell<br>Sunk precipitant heavy down down<br>Times on times, night on night, day on day<br>Truth has bounds. Error none: falling, falling:<br>Years on years, and ages on ages<br>Still he fell thro' the void, still a void<br>Found for falling day & night without end.<br>For tho’ day or night was not; their spaces<br>Were measur’d by his incessant whirls<br>In the horrid vacuity bottomless.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">6: The Immortal revolving; indignant<br>First in wrath threw his limbs, like the babe<br>New born into our world: wrath subsided<br>And contemplative thoughts first arose<br>Then aloft his head rear’d in the Abyss<br>And his downward-borne fall. Chang’d oblique</div><div style="margin:10px 0">7: Many ages of groans: till there grew<br>Branchy forms. organizing the Human<br>Into finite inflexible organs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">8: Till in process from falling he bore<br>Sidelong on the purple air, wafting<br>The weak breeze in efforts o’erwearied</div><div style="margin:10px 0">9: Incessant the falling Mind labour’d<br>Organizing itself: till the Vacuum<br>Became element, pliant to rise,<br>Or to fall, or to swim, or to fly:<br>With ease searching the dire vacuity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHAP III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1: The Lungs heave incessant, dull and heavy<br>For as yet were all other parts formless<br>Shiv’ring: clinging around like a cloud<br>Dim & glutinous as the white Polypus<br>Driv’n by waves & englob’d on the tide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2: And the unformed part crav’d repose<br>Sleep began: the Lungs heave on the wave<br>Weary overweigh’d, sinking beneath<br>In a stifling black fluid he woke</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3: He arose on the waters, but soon<br>Heavy falling his organs like roots<br>Shooting out from the seed, shot beneath,<br>And a vast world of waters around him<br>In furious torrents began.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4: Then he sunk, & around his spent Lungs<br>Began intricate pipes that drew in<br>The spawn of the waters. Outbranching<br>An immense Fibrous form, stretching out<br>Thro' the bottoms of immensity raging.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">5: He rose on the floods: then he smote<br>The wild deep with his terrible wrath,<br>Seperating the heavy and thin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">6: Down the heavy sunk; cleaving around<br>To the fragments of solid: up rose<br>The thin, flowing round the fierce fires<br>That glow’d furious in the expanse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHAP IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1: Then Light first began; from the fires<br>Beams, conducted by fluid so pure.<br>Flow’d around the Immense: Los beheld<br>Forthwith writhing upon the dark void<br>The Back bone of Urizen appear<br>Hurtling upon the wind<br>Like a serpent! like an iron chain<br>Whirling about in the Deep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2: Upfolding his Fibres together<br>To a Form of impregnable strength<br>Los astonish’d and terrified, built<br>Furnaces; he formed an Anvil<br>A Hammer of adamant then began<br>The binding of Urizen day and night</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3: Circling round the dark Demon, with howlings<br>Dismay & sharp blightings; the Prophet<br>Of Eternity beat on his iron links</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4: And first from those infinite fires<br>The light that flow’d down on the winds<br>He siez’d; beating incessant, condensing<br>The subtil particles in an Orb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">5: Roaring indignant the bright sparks<br>Endur’d the vast Hammer; but unwearied<br>Los beat on the Anvil; till glorious<br>An immense Orb of fire he fram’d</div><div style="margin:10px 0">6: Oft he quench’d it beneath in the Deeps<br>Then survey’d the all bright mass. Again<br>Siezing fires from the terrific Orbs<br>He heated the round Globe, then beat,<br>While roaring his Furnaces endur’d<br>The chain’d Orb in their infinite wombs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">7: Nine ages completed their circles<br>When Los heated the glowing mass, casting<br>It down into the Deeps: the Deeps fled<br>Away in redounding smoke; the Sun<br>Stood self-balanc’d. And Los smild with joy.<br>He the vast Spine of Urizen siez’d<br>And bound down to the glowing illusion</div><div style="margin:10px 0">8: But no light, for the Deep fled away<br>On all sides, and left an unform’d<br>Dark vacuity: here Urizen lay<br>In fierce torments on his glowing bed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">9: Till his Brain in a rock, & his Heart<br>In a fleshy slough formed four rivers<br>Obscuring the immense Orb of fire<br>Flowing down into night: till a Form<br>Was completed, a Human Illusion<br>In darkness and deep clouds involvd.</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><div class=q>
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