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Lettered inside image: "The banks of the Thames are clouded! the ancient porches of Albion are | Darken'd! they are drawn thro' unbounded space, scatter'd upon | The Void in incoherent despair! Cambridge & Oxford & London. | Are driven among the starry Wheels, rent away and dissipated, | In Chasms & Abysses of sorrow, enlarg'd without dimension, terrible | Albions mountains run with blood. the cries of war & of tumult | Resound into the unbounded night, every Human perfection | Of mountain & river & city. are small & wither'd & darken'd | Cam is a little stream! Ely is almost swallowed up! | Lincoln & Norwich stand trembling on the brink of Udan-Adan! | Wales and Scotland shrink themselves to the west and to the north! | Mourning for fear of the warriors in the Vale of Entuthon-Benython | Jerusalem is scatterd abroad like a cloud of smoke thro' non-entity: | Moab & Ammon & Amalek & Canaan & Egypt & Aram | Recieve her little-ones for sacrifices and the delights of cruelty | Trembling I sit day and night, my friends are astonish'd at me | Yet they forgive my [wanderings], I rest not from my great task! | To open the Ternal Worlds, to open the immortal Eyes | Of Man inwards into the Worlds of thought: into Eternity | Ever expanding in the Bosom of God. the Human Imagination | O Saviour pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness & love: | Annihilate the Selfhood in me, be thou all my life! | Guide thou my hand which trembles exceedingly upon the rock of ages, | While I write of the building of Galgonooza. & of the terrors of Entuthon: | Of Hand & Hyle & Coban. of Kwantok. Peachey. Brereton. Slayd & Hutton: | Of the terrible sons & daughters of Albion. and their Generations. | Scofield: Kox, Kotope and Bowen, revolve most mightily upon | The Furnace of Los: before the eastern gate bending their fury. | They war, to destroy the Furnaces, to desolate Golgonooza: | And to devour the Sleeping Humanity of Albion in rage & hunger. | They revolve into the Furnaces Southward & are driven forth Northward | Divided into Male and female forms time after time. | From these Twelve all the families of England spread abroad. | The Male is a Furnace of beryll; the Female is a golden Loom; | I behold them and their rushing fires overwhelmmy Soul; | In Londons darkness; and my tears fall day and night. | Upon the Emanations of Albions Sons! the Daughters of Albion | Names anciently rememberd. but now contemn'd as fictions: | Although in every bosom they controll our Vegetative powers. | These are united into Tirzah and her Sisters. on Mount Gilead. | Cambel & Gwendolen & Conwenna & Cordella & Ignoge. | And these united into Rahab in the Covering Cherub on Euphrates | Gwiniverra & Gwinefred. & Gonorill & Sabrina beautiful. | Estrild, Mehetabel & Ragan, lovely Daughters of Albion. | They are the beautiful Emanations of the Twelve Sons of Albion | The Starry Wheels revolv'd heavily over the Furnaces; | Drawing Jerusalem in anguish of maternal love. | Eastward a pillar of a cloud with Vala upon the mountains | Howling in pain. redounding from the arms of Beulahs Daughters, | Out from the Furnaces of Los above the head of Los. | A pillar of smoke writhing afar into Non-Entity. redounding | Till the cloud reaches afar outstretch'd among the Starry Wheels | Which revolve heavily in the mighty Void above the Furnaces | O what avail the loves & tears of Beulahs lovely Daughters | They hold the Immortal Form in gentle bands & tender tears | But all within is open'd into the deeps of Entuthon Benython | A dark and unknown night. indefinite. unmeasurable. without end. | Abstract Philosophy warring in emity against Imagination | Which is the Divine Body of the Lord Jesus. blessed for ever). | And there Jerusalem wanders with Vala upon the mountains. | Attracted by the revolutions of those Wheels the Cloud of smoke: | Immense. and Jerusalem & Vala weeping in the Cloud | Wander away into the Chaotic Void. lamenting with her Shadow | Among the Daughters of Albion. among the Starry Wheels: | Lamenting for her children, for the sons & daughters of Albion | Los heard her lamentations in the deeps afar! his tears fall | Incessant before the Furnaces, and his Emanation divided in pain. | Eastward toward the Starry Wheels. But Westward a black Horror."