# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 67

Written and etched 1804-1820. Source: Blake: The Complete Poetry & Prose (David. V. Erdman) In the internet: www.blakearchive.org
* PLATE 67
* By those who drink their blood & the blood of their Covenant
* And the Twelve Daughters of Albion united in Rahab & Tirzah
* A Double Female: and they drew out from the Rocky Stones
* Fibres of Life to Weave[,] for every Female is a Golden Loom
* 5 The Rocks are opake hardnesses covering all Vegetated things
* And as they Wove & Cut from the Looms in various divisions
* Stretching over Europe & Asia from Ireland to Japan
* They divided into many lovely Daughters to be counterparts
* To those they Wove, for when they Wove a Male, they divided
* 10 Into a Female to the Woven Male. in opake hardness
* They cut the Fibres from the Rocks groaning in pain they Weave;
* Calling the Rocks Atomic Origins of Existence; denying Eternity
* By the Atheistical Epicurean Philosophy of Albions Tree
* Such are the Feminine & Masculine when separated from Man
* 15 They call the Rocks Parents of Men, & adore the frowning Chaos
* Dancing around in howling pain clothed in the bloody Veil.
* Hiding Albions Sons within the Veil, closing Jerusalems
* Sons without; to feed with their Souls the Spectres of Albion
* Ashamed to give Love openly to the piteous & merciful Man
* 20 Counting him an imbecile mockery: but the Warrior
* They adore: & his revenge cherish with the blood of the Innocent
* They drink up Dan & Gad, to feed with milk Skofeld & Kotope
* They strip off Josephs Coat & dip it in the blood of battle
* Tirzah sits weeping to hear the shrieks of the dying: her Knife
* 25 Of flint is in her hand: she passes it over the howling Victim
* The Daughters Weave their Work in loud cries over the Rock
* Of Horeb! still eyeing Albions Cliffs eagerly siezing & twisting
* The threads of Vala & Jerusalem running from mountain to mountain
* Over the whole Earth: loud the Warriors rage in Beth Peor
* 30 Beneath the iron whips of their Captains & consecrated banners
* Loud the Sun & Moon rage in the conflict: loud the Stars
* Shout in the night of battle & their spears grow to their hands
* With blood, weaving the deaths of the Mighty into a Tabernacle
* For Rahab & Tirzah; till the Great Polypus of Generation covered the Earth
* 35 In Verulam the Polypus's Head, winding around his bulk
* Thro Rochester, and Chichester, & Exeter & Salisbury,
* To Bristol: & his Heart beat strong on Salisbury Plain
* Shooting out Fibres round the Earth, thro Gaul & Italy
* And Greece, & along the Sea of Rephaim into Judea
* 40 To Sodom & Gomorrha: thence to India, China & Japan
* The Twelve Daughters in Rahab & Tirzah have circumscribd the Brain
* Beneath & pierced it thro the midst with a golden pin.
* Blood hath staind her fair side beneath her bosom.
* O thou poor Human Form! said she. O thou poor child of woe!
* 45 Why wilt thou wander away from Tirzah: why me compel to bind thee[!]
* If thou dost go away from me I shall consume upon these Rocks
* These fibres of thine eyes that used to beam in distant heavens
* Away from me: I have bound down with a hot iron.
* These nostrils that expanded with delight in morning skies
* 50 I have bent downward with lead melted in my roaring furnaces
* Of affliction; of love; of sweet despair; of torment unendurable
* My soul is seven furnaces, incessant roars the bellows
* Upon my terribly flaming heart, the molten metal runs
* In channels thro my fiery limbs: O love! O pity! O fear!
* 55 O pain! O the pangs, the bitter pangs of love forsaken
* Ephraim was a wilderness of joy where all my wild beasts ran
* The River Kanah wanderd by my sweet Manassehs side
* To see the boy spring into heavens sounding from my sight!
* Go Noah fetch the girdle of strong brass, heat it red-hot:
* 60 Press it around the loins of this ever expanding cruelty
* Shriek not so my only love! I refuse thy joys: I drink
* Thy shrieks because Hand & Hyle are cruel & obdurate to me