Versos English William Blake Plate 93

English poem

Plate 93

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Anytus Melitus & Lycon thought Socrates a Very Pernicious Man So Caiphas thought Jesus

Enitharmon heard. She raisd her head like the mild Moon

O Rintrah! O Palamabron! What are your dire & awful purposes Enitharmons name is nothing before you: you forget all my Love! The Mothers love of obedience is forgotten & you seek a Love Of the pride of dominion, that will Divorce Ocalythron & Elynittria Upon East Moor in Derbyshire & along the Valleys of Cheviot Could you Love me Rintrah, if you Pride not in my Love As Reuben found Mandrakes in the field & gave them to his Mother Pride meets with Pride upon the Mountains in the stormy day In that terrible Day of Rintrahs Plow & of Satans driving the Team. Ah! then I heard my little ones weeping along the Valley! Ah! then I saw my beloved ones fleeing from my Tent Merlin was like thee Rintrah among the Giants of Albion Judah was like Palamabron: O Simeon! O Levi! ye fled away How can I hear my little ones weeping along the Valley Or how upon the distant Hills see my beloveds Tents.

Then Los again took up his speech as Enitharmon ceast

Fear not my Sons this Waking Death. he is become One with me Behold him here! We shall not Die! we shall be united in Jesus. Will you suffer this Satan this Body of Doubt that Seems but Is Not To occupy the very threshold of Eternal Life. if Bacon, Newton, Locke,

Deny a Conscience in Man & the Communion of Saints & Angels Contemning the Divine Vision & Fruition, Worshiping the Deus Of the Heathen, The God of This World, & the Goddess Nature Mystery Babylon the Great, The Druid Dragon & hidden Harlot Is it not that Signal of the Morning which was told us in the Beginning

Thus they converse upon Mam-Tor. the Graves thunder under their feet