Jerusalem - The Emanation of the Giant Albion

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CHAPTER I

OF THE SLEEP OF ULRo! AND OF THE PASSAGE THROUGH ETERNAL DEATH! AND OF THE AWAKING TO ETERNAL LIFE.

I "'HIS theme calls me in sleep night after night, & ev'ry morn Awakes me at sun-rise, then I see the Saviour over me Spreading his beams of love, & dictating the words of this mild song. Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows, wake! expand! I am in you and you in me, mutual in love divine: Fibres of love from man to man thro' Albion's pleasant land. In all the dark Atlantic vale down from the hills of Surrey 10 A black water accumulates, return Albion! return! Thy brethren call thee, and thy fathers, and thy sons, Thy nurses and thy mothers, thy sisters and thy daughters Weep at thy soul's disease, and the Divine Vision is darken'd : Thy Emanation that was wont to play before thy face, 15 Beaming forth with her daughters into the Divine bosom, Where hast thou hidden thy Emanation lovely Jerusalem From the vision and fruition of the Holy-one? I am not a God afar off, I am a brother and friend ; Within your bosoms I reside, and you reside in me: 20 Lo! we are One; forgiving all Evil; Not seeking recompense; Ye are my members O ye sleepers of Beulah, land of shades! But the perturbed Man away turns down the valleys dark; Phantom of the over heated brain! shadow of immortality! Seeking to keep my soul a victim to thy Love! which binds 25 Man the enemy of man into deceitful friendships: Jerusalem is not! her daughters are indefinite; By demonstration man alone can live, and not by faith. My mountains are my own, and I will keep them to myself: The Malvern and the Cheviot, the Wolds, Plinlimmon & Snowdon 30 Are mine, here will I build my Laws of Moral Virtue: Humanity shall be no more: but war & princedom & victory! So spake Albion in jealous fears, hiding his Emanation Upon the Thames and Medway,