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Book: The Book of Urizen
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Of the primeval Priests assum'd power,
When Eternals spurn'd back his religion;
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1. Lo, a shadow of horror is risen
In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific!
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1. Earth was not: nor globes of attraction
The will of the Immortal expanded
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1. But Los saw the Female & pitied
He embrac'd her, she wept, she refus'd
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1. The voice ended, they saw his pale visage
Emerge from the darkness; his hand
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1. Urizen explor'd his dens
Mountain, moor, & wilderness,
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Los smitten with astonishment Frightend at the hurtling bones
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1. They named the child Orc, he grew
Fed with milk of Enitharmon
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1. In terrors Los shrunk from his task:
His great hammer fell from his hand:
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1. Then the Inhabitants of those Cities:
Felt their Nerves change into Marrow
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