| {Pl. i} [Pl. 1] |
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| [Pl. 2] |
| 1: Fuzon, on a chariot iron-wing'd On spiked flames rose; his hot visage Flam'd furious! sparkles his hair & beard Shot down his wide bosom and shoulders. On clouds of smoke rages his chariot And his right hand burns red in its cloud Moulding into a vast globe, his wrath As the thunder-stone is moulded. Son of Urizens silent burnings | 2: Shall we worship this Demon of smoke, Said Fuzon, this abstract non-entity This cloudy God seated on waters Now seen, now obscur'd; King of sorrow? | A2.10 | 3: So he spoke, in a fiery flame, On Urizen frowning indignant, The Globe of wrath shaking on high Roaring with fury, he threw The howling Globe: burning it flew Lengthning into a hungry beam. Swiftly | 4: Oppos'd to the exulting flam'd beam The broad Disk of Urizen upheav'd Across the Void many a mile. | A2.20 | 5: It was forg'd in mills where the winter Beats incessant; ten winters the disk Unremitting endur'd the cold hammer. | 6: But the strong arm that sent it, remember'd The sounding beam; laughing it tore through That beaten mass: keeping its direction The cold loins of Urizen dividing. | 7: Dire shriek'd his invisible Lust Deep groan'd Urizen! stretching his awful hand Ahania (so name his parted soul) He siez'd on his mountains of jealousy. He groand anguishd & called her Sin, Kissing her and weeping over her; Then hid her in darkness in silence; Jealous tho' she was invisible. | A2.30 | 8: She fell down a faint shadow wandring In chaos and circling dark Urizen, As the moon anguishd circles the earth; Hopeless! abhorrd! a death-shadow, Unseen, unbodied, unknown, The mother of Pestilence. | A2.40 |
9: But the fiery beam of Fuzon Was a pillar of fire to Egypt Five hundred years wandring on earth Till Los siezd it and beat in a mass With the body of the sun. |