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 | Chap: IV The Poetry and Prose of William Blake |  |
Chap: IV
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Forth flew the arrows of pestilenceRound the pale living Corse on the tree
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For in Urizens slumbers of abstractionIn the infinite ages of Eternity:
When his Nerves of Joy melted & flow'd
A white Lake on the dark blue air
In perturb'd pain and dismal torment
Now stretching out, now swift conglobing.
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Effluvia vapor'd aboveIn noxious clouds; these hover'd thick
Over the disorganiz'd Immortal,
Till petrific pain scurfd o'er the Lakes
As the bones of man, solid & dark
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The clouds of disease hover'd wideAround the Immortal in torment
Perching around the hurtling bones
Disease on disease, shape on shape,
Winged screaming in blood & torment.
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The Eternal Prophet beat on his anvilsEnrag'd in the desolate darkness
He forg'd nets of iron around
And Los threw them around the bones
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The shapes screaming flutter'd vainSome combin'd into muscles & glands
Some organs for craving and lust
Most remain'd on the tormented void:
Urizens army of horrors.
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Round the pale living Corse on the TreeForty years flew the arrows of pestilence
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Wailing and terror and woeRan thro' all his dismal world:
Forty years all his sons & daughters
Felt their skulls harden; then Asia
Arose in the pendulous deep.
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They reptilize upon the Earth.10
Fuzon groand on the Tree. | Chap: IV The Poetry and Prose of William Blake | |