His face and bosom with petrific hardness, and his hands And feet, lest any should enter his bosom & embrace His hidden heart; his Emanation wept & trembled within him: Uttering not his jealousy, but hiding it as with 5Iron and steel, dark and opake, with clouds & tempests brooding: His strong limbs shudderd upon his mountains high and dark.
Turning from Universal Love petrific as he went, His cold against the warmth of Eden rag'd with loud Thunders of deadly war (the fever of the human soul) 10Fires and clouds of rolling smoke! but mild the Saviour follow'd him,
Displaying the Eternal Vision! the Divine Similitude! In loves and tears of brothers, sisters, sons, fathers, and friends Which if Man ceases to behold, he ceases to exist:
Saying. Albion! Our wars are wars of life, & wounds of love, 15With intellectual spears, & long winged arrows of thought: Mutual in one anothers love and wrath all renewing We live as One Man; for contracting our infinite senses We behold multitude; or expanding: we behold as one, As One Man all the Universal Family; and that One Man 20We call Jesus the Christ: and he in us, and we in him, Live in perfect harmony in Eden the land of life, Giving, recieving, and forgiving each others trespasses. He is the Good shepherd, he is the Lord and master: He is the Shepherd of Albion, he is all in all, 25In Eden: in the garden of God: and in heavenly Jerusalem. If we have offended, forgive us, take not vengeance against us.
Thus speaking; the Divine Family follow Albion: I see them in the Vision of God upon my pleasant valleys.
I behold London; a Human awful wonder of God! 30He says: Return, Albion, return! I give myself for thee: My Streets are my, Ideas of Imagination. Awake Albion, awake! and let us awake up together. My Houses are Thoughts: my Inhabitants; Affections, The children of my thoughts, walking within my blood-vessels, 35Shut from my nervous form which sleeps upon the verge of Beulah In dreams of darkness, while my vegetating blood in veiny pipes, Rolls dreadful thro' the Furnaces of Los, and the Mills of Satan. For Albions sake, and for Jerusalem thy Emanation I give myself, and these my brethren give themselves for Albion.
40So spoke London, immortal Guardian! I heard in Lambeths shades: In Felpham I heard and saw the Visions of Albion I write in South Molton Street, what I both see and hear In regions of Humanity, in Londons opening streets.
I see thee awful Parent Land in light, behold I see! 45Verulam! Canterbury! venerable parent of men, Generous immortal Guardian golden clad! for Cities Are Men, fathers of multitudes, and Rivers & Mount[a]ins Are also Men; every thing is Human, mighty! sublime! In every bosom a Universe expands, as wings 50Let down at will around, and call'd the Universal Tent. York, crown'd with loving kindness. Edinburgh, cloth'd With fortitude as with a garment of immortal texture Woven in looms of Eden, in spiritual deaths of mighty men
Who give themselves, in Golgotha, Victims to Justice; where 55There is in Albion a Gate of precious stones and gold Seen only by Emanations, by vegetations viewless, Bending across the road of Oxford Street; it from Hyde Park To Tyburns deathful shades, admits the wandering souls Of multitudes who die from Earth: this Gate cannot be found
