# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 12

Written and etched 1804-1820. Source: Blake: The Complete Poetry & Prose (David. V. Erdman) In the internet: www.blakearchive.org
[ PLATE 12 ]
* Plate 12
* PLATE 12
* Why wilt thou give to her a Body whose life is but a Shade?
* Her joy and love, a shade: a shade of sweet repose:
* But animated and vegetated, she is a devouring worm:
* What shall we do for thee O lovely mild Jerusalem?
* 5And Los said. I behold the finger of God in terrors!
* Albion is dead! his Emanation is divided from him!
* But I am living! yet I feel my Emanation also dividing
* Such thing was never known! O pity me, thou all-piteous-one!
* What shall I do! or how exist, divided from Enitharmon?
* 10Yet why despair! I saw the finger of God go forth
* Upon my Furnaces, from within the Wheels of Albions Sons:
* Fixing their Systems, permanent: by mathematic power
* Giving a body to Falshood that it may be cast off for ever.
* With Demonstrative Science piercing Apollyon with his own bow!
* 15God is within, & without! he is even in the depths of Hell!
* Such were the lamentations of the Labourers in the Furnaces:
* And they appeard within & without incircling on both sides
* The Starry Wheels of Albions Sons, with Spaces for Jerusalem:
* And for Vala the shadow of Jerusalem: the ever mourning shade:
* 20On both sides, within & without beaming gloriously!
* Terrified at the sublime Wonder, Los stood before his Furnaces.
* And they stood around, terrified with admiration at Erins Spaces
* For the Spaces reachd from the starry heighth, to the starry depth;
* And they builded Golgonooza: terrible eternal labour!
* 25What are those golden builders doing? where was the burying-place
* Of soft Ethinthus? near Tyburns fatal Tree? is that
* Mild Zions hills most ancient promontory; near mournful
* Ever weeping Paddington? is that Calvary and Golgotha?
* Becoming a building of pity and compassion? Lo!
* 30The stones are pity, and the bricks, well wrought affections:
* Enameld with love & kindness, & the tiles engraven gold
* Labour of merciful hands: the beams & rafters are forgiveness:
* The mortar & cement of the work, tears of honesty: the nails,
* And the screws & iron braces, are well wrought blandishments,
* 35And well contrived words, firm fixing, never forgotten,
* Always comforting the remembrance: the floors, humility,
* The cielings, devotion: the hearths, thanksgiving:
* Prepare the furniture O Lambeth in thy pitying looms!
* The curtains, woven tears & sighs, wrought into lovely forms
* 40For comfort. there the secret furniture of Jerusalems chamber
* Is wrought: Lambeth! the Bride the Lambs Wife loveth thee:
* Thou art one with her & knowest not of self in thy supreme joy.
* Go on, builders in hope: tho Jerusalem wanders far away,
* Without the gate of Los: among the dark Satanic wheels.
* 45Fourfold the Sons of Los in their divisions: and fourfold,
* The great City of Golgonooza: fourfold toward the north
* And toward the south fourfold, & fourfold toward the east & west
* Each within other toward the four points: that toward
* Eden, and that toward the World of Generation,
* 50And that toward Beulah, and that toward Ulro:
* Ulro is the space of the terrible starry wheels of Albions sons:
* But that toward Eden is walled up, till time of renovation:
* Yet it is perfect in its building, ornaments & perfection.
* And the Four Points are thus beheld in Great Eternity
* 55West, the Circumference: South, the Zenith: North,
* The Nadir: East, the Center, unapproachable for ever.
* These are the four Faces towards the Four Worlds of Humanity
* In every Man. Ezekiel saw them by Chebars flood.
* And the Eyes are the South, and the Nostrils are the East.
* 60And the Tongue is the West, and the Ear is the North.
* And the North Gate of Golgonooza toward Generation;
* Has four sculpturd Bulls terrible before the Gate of iron.
* And iron, the Bulls: and that which looks toward Ulro,
* Clay bak'd & enamel'd, eternal glowing as four furnaces:
* 65Turning upon the Wheels of Albions sons with enormous power.
* And that toward Beulah four, gold, silver, brass, & iron: