EUROPE A PROPHECY by William Blake

Author:William Blake [Blake, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788027236855
Publisher: Musaicum Books
Published: 2017-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

Thought chang’d the infinite to a serpent; that which pitieth:

To a devouring flame; and man fled from its face and hid

In forests of night; then all the eternal forests were divided

Into earths rolling in circles of space, that like an ocean rush’d

And overwhelmed all except this finite wall of flesh.

Then was the serpent temple form’d, image of infinite

Shut up in finite revolutions, and man became an Angel;

Heaven a mighty circle turning; God a tyrant crown’d.

Now arriv’d the ancient Guardian at the southern porch,

That planted thick with trees of blackest leaf, & in a vale

Obscure, inclos’d the Stone of Night; oblique it stood, o’erhung

With purple flowers and berries red; image of that sweet south,

Once open to the heavens and elevated on the human neck,

Now overgrown with hair and coverd with a stony roof,

Downward ‘tis sunk beneath th’ attractive north, that round the feet

A raging whirlpool draws the dizzy enquirer to his grave:

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