| This is the Race that Jesus ran t | |
| Humble to God Haughty to Man | |
| Cursing the Rulers before the People | 65 |
| Even to the temples highest Steeple | |
| And when he Humbled himself to God | |
| Then descended the Cruel Rod | |
| If thou humblest thyself thou humblest me t | |
| Thou also dwellst in Eternity | 70 |
| Thou art a Man God is no more | |
| Thy own humanity learn to adore | |
| For that is my Spirit of Life | |
| Awake arise to Spiritual Strife | |
| And thy Revenge abroad display | 75 |
| In terrors at the Last Judgment day | |
| Gods Mercy & Long Suffering | |
| Is but the Sinner to Judgment to bring | |
| Thou on the Cross for them shalt pray | |
| And take Revenge at the Last Day t | 80 |
| Jesus replied & thunders hurld | |
| I never will Pray for the World | |
| Once [I] did so when I prayd ill the Garden t | |
| I wishd to take with me a Bodily Pardon | |
| Can that which was of Woman born | 85 |
| In the absence of the Morn | |
| When the Soul fell into Sleep | |
| And Archangels round it weep | |
| Shooting out against the Light | |
| Fibres of a deadly night | 90 |
| Reasoning upon its own Dark Fiction | |
| In Doubt which is Self Contradiction | |
| Humility is only Doubt | |
| And does the Sun & Moon blot out | |
| Rooting over with thorns & stems | 95 |
| The buried Soul & all its Gems | |
| This Lifes dim Windows of the Soul | |
| Distorts the Heavens from Pole to Pole | |
| And leads you to Believe a Lie | |
| When you see with not thro the Eye | 100 |
| That was born in a night to perish in a night | |
| When the Soul slept in the beams of Light. |
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
William Blake: The Everlasting Gospel VII (excerpt)
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