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Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "7"

Lettered inside image, left: "In living creatures appear'd | In the flames of eternal fury. | 3. Sund'ring. dark'ning. thund'ring! | Rent away with a terrible crash | Eternity roll'd wide apart | Wide asunder rolling | Mountainous all around | Departing; departing: departing; | Leaving ruinous fragments of life | Hanging frowning cliffs & all between | An ocean of voidness unfathomable. | 4. The roaring fires ran o'er the heav'ns | In whirlwinds & cataracts of blood | And o'er the dark desarts of Urizen | Fires pour thro' the void on all sides | On Urizens self-begotten armies. | 5. But no light from the fires, all was | darkness | In the flames of Eternal fury | 6. In fierce anguish & quenchless | flames"; right: "-ging | To the desarts and rocks he ran ra- | To hide, but he could not; combining, | He dug mountains & hills in vast strength. | He piled them in incessant labour, | In howlings & pangs & fierce madness | Long periods in burning fires labouring | Till hoary, and age-broke, and aged, | In despair and the shadows of death. | 7. And a roof vast petrific around, | On all sides he fram'd: like a womb: | Where thousands of rivers in veins | Of blood pour down the mountains to cool | The eternal fires beating without | From Eternals: & like a black globe | View'd by sons of Eternity, standing | On the shore of the infinite ocean | Like a human heart strugling & beating | The vast world of Urizen appear'd. | 8. And Los round the dark globe of | Urizen, | Kept watch for Eternals to confine, | The obscure separation alone; | For Eternity stood wide apart,"