Poems by William Blake

Author:William Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

THE BOOK OF AHANIA

Chap: Ist

1. Fuzon on a chariot iron-wing’d

On 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 Urizen’s silent burnings.

2. ‘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?’

3. 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,

Length’ning into a hungry beam. Swiftly

4. Oppos’d to the exulting flam’d beam

The broad Disk of Urizen upheav’d

Across the Void many a mile.

5. It was forg’d in mills where the winter

Beats incessant: ten winters the disk

Unremitting endur’d the cold hammer.

6. But the strong arm that sent it remember’d

The sounding beam: laughing, it tore through

That beaten mass, keeping its direction,

The cold loins of Urizen dividing.

7. Dire shriek’d his invisible Lust.

Deep groan’d Urizen! stretching his awful hand,

Ahania (so name his parted soul)

He siez’d on his mountains of Jealousy.

He groan’d, anguish’d, & called her Sin,

Kissing her and weeping over her;

Then hid her in darkness, in silence,

Jealous tho’ she was invisible.

8. She fell down, a faint shadow wand’ring

In chaos and circling dark Urizen

As the moon, anguish’d, circles the earth:

Hopeless! abhorr’d! a death-shadow

Unseen, unbodied, unknown,

The mother of Pestilence.

9. But the fiery beam of Fuzon

Was a pillar of fire to Egypt

Five hundred years wand’ring on earth

Till Los siez’d it and beat in a mass

With the body of the sun.

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