| William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908. | | | | Selections from ‘Milton’ | | [The Invocation] |
| | (Milton, f. 3, ll. 1–15.)
DAUGHTERS of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poet’s Song, | |
| Record the journey of immortal Milton thro’ your realms | |
| Of terror and mild moony lustre, in soft Sexual delusions | |
| Of varièd beauty, to delight the wanderer, and repose | |
| His burning thirst and freezing hunger! Come into my hand, | 5 |
| By your mild power descending down the nerves of my right arm | |
| From out the portals of my Brain, where by your ministry | |
| The Eternal Great Humanity Divine planted His Paradise, | |
| And in it caus’d the Spectres of the Dead to take sweet form | |
| In likeness of Himself. Tell also of the False Tongue, vegetated | 10 |
| Beneath your land of Shadows, of its sacrifices and | |
| Its offerings; even till Jesus, the image of the Invisible God, | |
| Became its prey; a curse, an offering, and an atonement | |
| For Death Eternal, in the Heavens of Albion, and before the Gates | |
| Of Jerusalem his Emanation, in the Heavens beneath Beulah! | 15 | | | |
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