The Poetry and Prose of William Blake Edited by David V. Erdman: Commentary by Harold Bloom |
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Chap: Ist The Poetry and Prose of William Blake | ||
Chap: Ist
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Fuzon, on a chariot iron-wing'dOn spiked flames rose; his hot visage
Flam'd furious! sparkles his hair & beard
Shot down his wide bosom and shoulders.
On clouds of smoke rages his chariot
And his right hand burns red in its cloud
Moulding into a vast globe, his wrath
As the thunder-stone is moulded.
Son of Urizens silent burnings
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Shall we worship this Demon of smoke,Said Fuzon, this abstract non-entity
This cloudy God seated on waters
Now seen, now obscur'd; King of sorrow?
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So he spoke, in a fiery flame,On Urizen frowning indignant,
The Globe of wrath shaking on high
Roaring with fury, he threw
The howling Globe: burning it flew
Lengthning into a hungry beam. Swiftly
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Oppos'd to the exulting flam'd beamThe broad Disk of Urizen upheav'd
Across the Void many a mile.
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It was forg'd in mills where the winterBeats incessant; ten winters the disk
Unremitting endur'd the cold hammer.
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But the strong arm that sent it, remember'dThe sounding beam; laughing it tore through
That beaten mass: keeping its direction
The cold loins of Urizen dividing.
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Dire shriek'd his invisible LustDeep groan'd Urizen! stretching his awful hand
Ahania (so name his parted soul)
He siez'd on his mountains of Jealousy.
He groand anguishd & called her Sin,
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Then hid her in darkness in silence;
Jealous tho' she was invisible.
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She fell down a faint shadow wandringIn chaos and circling dark Urizen,
As the moon anguishd circles the earth;
Hopeless! abhorrd! a death-shadow,
Unseen, unbodied, unknown,
The mother of Pestilence.
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But the fiery beam of FuzonWas a pillar of fire to Egypt
Five hundred years wandring on earth
Till Los siezd it and beat in a mass
With the body of the sun.
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Chap: Ist The Poetry and Prose of William Blake | ||