# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 7

Written and etched 1804-1820. Source: Blake: The Complete Poetry & Prose (David. V. Erdman) In the internet: www.blakearchive.org
[ PLATE 7 ]
* Was living: panting like a frighted wolf, and howling
* He stood over the Immortal, in the solitude and darkness:
* Upon the darkning Thames, across the whole Island westward.
* A horrible Shadow of Death, among the Furnaces: beneath
* 5The pillar of folding smoke; and he sought by other means,
* To lure Los: by tears, by arguments of science & by terrors:
* Terrors in every Nerve, by spasms & extended pains:
* While Los answer'd unterrified to the opake blackening Fiend
* And thus the Spectre spoke: Wilt thou still go on to destruction?
* 10Till thy life is all taken away by this deceitful Friendship?
* He drinks thee up like water! like wine he pours thee
* Into his tuns: thy Daughters are trodden in his vintage
* He makes thy Sons the trampling of his bulls, they are plow'd
* And harrowd for his profit, lo! thy stolen Emanation
* 15Is his garden of pleasure! all the Spectres of his Sons mock thee
* Look how they scorn thy once admired palaces! now in ruins
* Because of Albion! because of deceit and friendship! For Lo!
* Hand has peopled Babel & Nineveh: Hyle, Ashur & Aram:
* Cobans son is Nimrod: his son Cush is adjoind to Aram,
* 20By the Daughter of Babel, in a woven mantle of pestilence & war.
* They put forth their spectrous cloudy sails; which drive their immense
* Constellations over the deadly deeps of indefinite Udan-Adan
* Kox is the Father of Shem & Ham & Japheth, he is the Noah
* Of the Flood of Udan-Adan. Hutn is the Father of the Seven
* 25From Enoch to Adam; Schofield is Adam who was New-
* Created in Edom. I saw it indignant, & thou art not moved!
* This has divided thee in sunder: and wilt thou still forgive?
* O! thou seest not what I see! what is done in the Furnaces.
* Listen, I will tell thee what is done in moments to thee unknown:
* 30Luvah was cast into the Furnaces of affliction and sealed,
* And Vala fed in cruel delight, the Furnaces with fire:
* Stern Urizen beheld; urgd by necessity to keep
* The evil day afar, and if perchance with iron power
* He might avert his own despair: in woe & fear he saw
* 35Vala incircle round the Furnaces where Luvah was clos'd:
* With joy she heard his howlings, & forgot he was her Luvah,
* With whom she liv'd in bliss in times of innocence & youth!
* Vala comes from the Furnace in a cloud, but wretched Luvah
* Is howling in the Furnaces, in flames among Albions Spectres,
* 40To prepare the Spectre of Albion to reign over thee O Los,
* Forming the Spectres of Albion according to his rage:
* To prepare the Spectre sons of Adam, who is Scofield: the Ninth
* Of Albions sons, & the father of all his brethren in the Shadowy
* Generation. Cambel & Gwendolen wove webs of war & of
* 45Religion, to involve all Albions sons, and when they had
* Involv'd Eight; their webs roll'd outwards into darkness
* And Scofield the Ninth remaind on the outside of the Eight
* And Kox, Kotope, & Bowen, One in him, a Fourfold Wonder
* Involv'd the Eight—Such are the Generations of the Giant Albion,
* 50To separate a Law of Sin, to punish thee in thy members.
* Los answer'd. Altho' I know not this! I know far worse than this:
* I know that Albion hath divided me, and that thou O my Spectre,
* Hast just cause to be irritated: but look stedfastly upon me:
* Comfort thyself in my strength the time will arrive,
* 55When all Albions injuries shall cease, and when we shall
* Embrace him tenfold bright, rising from his tomb in immortality.
* They have divided themselves by Wrath. they must be united by
* Pity: let us therefore take example & warning O my Spectre,
* O that I could abstain from wrath! O that the Lamb
* 60Of God would look upon me and pity me in my fury.
* In anguish of regeneration! in terrors of self annihilation:
* Pity must join together those whom wrath has torn in sunder,
* And the Religion of Generation which was meant for the destruction
* Of Jerusalem, become her covering, till the time of the End.
* 65O holy Generation! [Image] of regeneration!
* O point of mutual forgiveness between Enemies!
* Birthplace of the Lamb of God incomprehensible!
* The Dead despise & scorn thee, & cast thee out as accursed:
* Seeing the Lamb of God in thy gardens & thy palaces:
* 70Where they desire to place the Abomination of Desolation.
* Hand sits before his furnace: scorn of others & furious pride:
* Freeze round him to bars of steel & to iron rocks beneath
* His feet: indignant self-righteousness like whirlwinds of the north: