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Book: The Book of Urizen

• The Book of Urizen: Preludium

  Of the primeval Priests assum'd power,
  When Eternals spurn'd back his religion;

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• The Book of Urizen: Chapter I

  1. Lo, a shadow of horror is risen
  In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific!

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• The Book of Urizen: Chapter II

  1. Earth was not: nor globes of attraction
  The will of the Immortal expanded

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• The Book of Urizen: Chapter VI

  1. But Los saw the Female & pitied
  He embrac'd her, she wept, she refus'd

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• The Book of Urizen: Chapter III

  1. The voice ended, they saw his pale visage
  Emerge from the darkness; his hand

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• The Book of Urizen: Chapter VIII

  1. Urizen explor'd his dens
  Mountain, moor, & wilderness,

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• The Book of Urizen: Chapter IV

  Los smitten with astonishment
  Frightend at the hurtling bones

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• The Book of Urizen: Chapter VII

  1. They named the child Orc, he grew
  Fed with milk of Enitharmon

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• The Book of Urizen: Chapter V

  1. In terrors Los shrunk from his task:
  His great hammer fell from his hand:

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• The Book of Urizen: Chapter IX

  1. Then the Inhabitants of those Cities:
  Felt their Nerves change into Marrow

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