3/04/2011

Prophetic Vision Of Britain Today - William Blake

A prefiguration of the future from Jerusalem (1804-1820) by Blake, the great English patriot and visionary.


Urizen rose from the bright Feast like a star thro' the evening sky.
First he beheld the body of Man pale, cold; the horrors of death
Beneath his feet shot thro' him as he stood in the Human Brain,
Pale he beheld futurity; pale he beheld the Abyss :


'Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizzly deep,
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion.'

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