Plate 70

And this the form of mighty Hand sitting on Albions cliffs Before the face of Albion, a mighty threatning Form. His bosom wide & shoulders huge overspreading wondrous Bear Three strong sinewy Necks & Three awful & terrible Heads Three Brains in contradictory council brooding incessantly. Neither daring to put in act its councils, fearing each-other, Therefore rejecting Ideas as nothing & holding all Wisdom To consist. in the agreements & disagree[me]nts of Ideas. Plotting to devour Albions Body of Humanity & Love. Such Form the aggregate of the Twelve Sons of Albion took; & such Their appearance when combind: but often by birth-pangs & loud groans They divide to Twelve: the key-bones & the chest dividing in pain Disclose a hideous orifice; thence issuing the Giant-brood Arise as the smoke of the furnace, shaking the rocks from sea to sea. And there they combine into Three Forms, named Bacon & Newton & Locke, In the Oak Groves of Albion which overspread all the Earth. Imputing Sin & Righteousness to Individuals; Rahab Sat deep within him hid: his Feminine Power unreveal'd Brooding Abstract Philosophy. to destroy Imagination, the Divine- -Humanity A Three-fold Wonder: feminine: most beautiful: Three-fold Each within other. On her white marble & even Neck, her Heart Inorb'd and bonified: with locks of shadowing modesty, shining Over her beautiful Female features, soft flourishing in beauty Beams mild, all love and all perfection, that when the lips Recieve a kiss from Gods or Men, a threefold kiss returns From the pressd loveliness: so her whole immortal form three-fold Three-fold embrace returns: consuming lives of Gods & Men In fires of beauty melting them as gold & silver in the furnace Her Brain enlabyrinths the whole heaven of her bosom & loins To put in act what her Heart wills; O who can withstand her power Her name is Vala in Eternity: in Time her name is Rahab The Starry Heavens all were fled from the mighty limbs of Albion