[plates 25-27]

[1.] The Eternal Female Groan'd! It Was Heard All Over The Earth.

[2.] Albion's Coast Is Sick Silent; The American Meadows Faint!

[3.] Shadows Of Prophecy Shiver Along By The Lakes And The Rivers

And Mutter Across The Ocean: France, Rend Down Thy Dungeon;

[4.] Golden Spain Burst The Barriers Of Old Rome;

[5.] Cast Thy Keys, O Rome, Into The Deep Falling, Even To Eternity Down Falling,

[6.] And Weep [and Bow Thy Reverend Locks.]

[7.] In Her Trembling Hands She Took The New Born Terror, Howling;

[8.] On Those Infinite Mountains Of Light, Now Barr'd Out By The Atlantic Sea,

The New Born Fire Stood Before The Starry King!

[9.] Flag'd With Grey Brow'd Snows And Thunderous Visages, The Jealous Wings Wav'd Over The Deep.

[10.] The Speary Hand Burned Aloft, Unbuckled Was The Shield;

Forth Went The Hand Of Jealousy Among The Flaming Hair,

And Hurl'd The New Born Wonder Thro' The Starry Night.

[11.] The Fire, The Fire Is Falling!

[12.] Look Up! Look Up! O Citizen Of London, Enlarge Thy Countenance:

O Jew. Leave Counting Gold! Return To Thy Oil And Wine. O African!

Black African! (Go, Winged Thought, Widen His Forehead)

[13.] The Fiery Limbs, The Flaming Hair, Shot Like The Sinking Sun Into The Western Sea.

[14.] Wak'd From His Eternal Sleep, The Hoary Element Roaring Fled Away;

[15.] Down Rush'd, Beating His Wings In Vain, The Jealous King; His Grey Brow'd Councellors,

Thunderous Warriors, Curl'd Veterans, Among Helms, And Shields,

And Chariots, Horses, Elephants: Banners, Castles, Slings, And Rocks.

[16.] Falling, Rushing, Ruining! Buried In The Ruins, On Urthona's Dens;

[17.] All Night Beneath The Ruins, Then, Their Sullen Flames Faded,

Emerge Round The Gloomy King.

[18.] With Thunder And Fire, Leading His Starry Hosts Thro' The Waste

Wilderness, He Promulgates His Ten Comman