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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