| William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908. | | | | Selections from ‘Jerusalem’ | | [A Vision of Albion] |
| | (Jerusalem, f. 15, ll. 6–20.)
I SEE the Fourfold Man; the Humanity in deadly sleep, | |
| And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. | |
| I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once | |
| Before me. O Divine Spirit! sustain me on thy wings, | |
| That I may awake Albion from his long and cold repose; | 5 |
| For Bacon and Newton, sheath’d in dismal steel, their terrors hang | |
| Like iron scourges over Albion. Reasonings like vast Serpents | |
| Enfold around my limbs, bruising my minute articulations. | |
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| I turn my eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe, | |
| And there behold the Loom of Locke, whose Woof rages dire, | 10 |
| Wash’d by the Water-wheels of Newton: black the cloth | |
| In heavy wreaths folds over every Nation: cruel Works | |
| Of many Wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic, | |
| Moving by compulsion each other; not as those in Eden, which, | |
| Wheel within wheel, in freedom revolve, in harmony and peace. | 15 | | | |
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