# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 83

Written and etched 1804-1820. Source: Blake: The Complete Poetry & Prose (David. V. Erdman) In the internet: www.blakearchive.org
* PLATE 83
* Corruptibility appears upon thy limbs, and never more
* Can I arise and leave thy side, but labour here incessant
* Till thy awaking! yet alas I shall forget Eternity!
* Against the Patriarchal pomp and cruelty, labouring incessant
* 5 I shall become an Infant horror. Enion! Tharmas! friends
* Absorb me not in such dire grief: O Albion, my brother!
* Jerusalem hungers in the desart! affection to her children!
* The scorn'd and contemnd youthful girl, where shall she fly?
* Sussex shuts up her Villages. Hants, Devon & Wilts
* 10 Surrounded with masses of stone in orderd forms, determine then
* A form for Vala and a form for Luvah, here on the Thames
* Where the Victim nightly howls beneath the Druids knife:
* A Form of Vegetation, nail them down on the stems of Mystery:
* O when shall the Saxon return with the English his redeemed brother!
* 15 O when shall the Lamb of God descend among the Reprobate!
* I woo to Amalek to protect my fugitives[.] Amalek trembles:
* I call to Canaan & Moab in my night watches, they mourn:
* They listen not to my cry, they rejo[i]ce among their warriors
* Woden and Thor and Friga wholly consume my Saxons:
* 20 On their enormous Altars built in the terrible north:
* From Irelands rocks to Scandinavia Persia and Tartary:
* From the Atlantic Sea to the universal Erythrean.
* Found ye London! enormous City! weeps thy River?
* Upon his parent bosom lay thy little ones O Land
* 25 Forsaken. Surrey and Sussex are Enitharmons Chamber.
* Where I will build her a Couch of repose & my pillars
* Shall surround her in beautiful labyrinths: Oothoon?
* Where hides my child? in Oxford hidest thou with Antamon?
* In graceful hidings of error: in merciful deceit
* 30 Lest Hand the terrible destroy his Affection. thou hidest her:
* In chaste appearances for sweet deceits of love & modesty
* Immingled, interwoven, glistening to the sickening sight.
* Let Cambel and her Sisters sit within the Mundane Shell:
* Forming the fluctuating Globe according to their will,
* 35 According as they weave the little embryon nerves & veins
* The Eye, the little Nostrils, & the delicate Tongue & Ears
* Of labyrinthine intricacy: so shall they fold the World
* That whatever is seen upon the Mundane Shell, the same
* Be seen upon the Fluctuating Earth woven by the Sisters.
* 40 And sometimes the Earth shall roll in the Abyss & sometimes
* Stand in the Center & sometimes stretch flat in the Expanse,
* According to the will of the lovely Daughters of Albion.
* Sometimes it shall assimilate with mighty Golgonooza:
* Touching its summits: & sometimes divided roll apart.
* 45 As a beautiful Veil so these Females shall fold & unfold
* According to their will the outside surface of the Earth
* An outside shadowy Surface superadded to the real Surface;
* Which is unchangeable for ever & ever Amen: so be it!
* Separate Albions Sons gently from their Emanations,
* 50 Weaving bowers of delight on the current of infant Thames
* Where the old Parent still retains his youth as I alas!
* Retain my youth eight thousand and five hundred years.
* The labourer of ages in the Valleys of Despair!
* The land is markd for desolation & unless we plant
* 55 The seeds of Cities & of Villages in the Human bosom
* Albion must be a rock of blood: mark ye the points
* Where Cities shall remain & where Villages[;] for the rest!
* It must lie in confusion till Albions time of awaking.
* Place the Tribes of Llewellyn in America for a hiding place!
* 60 Till sweet Jerusalem emanates again into Eternity
* The night falls thick: I go upon my watch: be attentive:
* The Sons of Albion go forth; I follow from my Furnaces:
* That they return no more: that a place be prepard on Euphrates
* Listen to your Watchmans voice: sleep not before the Furnaces
* 65 Eternal Death stands at the door. O God pity our labours.
* So Los spoke. to the Daughters of Beulah while his Emanation
* Like a faint rainbow waved before him in the awful gloom
* Of London City on the Thames from Surrey Hills to Highgate:
* Swift turn the silver spindles, & the golden weights play soft
* 70 And lulling harmonies beneath the Looms, from Caithness in the north
* To Lizard-point & Dover in the south: his Emanation
* Joy'd in the many weaving threads in bright Cathedrons Dome
* Weaving the Web of life for Jerusalem. the Web of life
* Down flowing into Entuthons Vales glistens with soft affections.
* 75 While Los arose upon his Watch, and down from Golgonooza
* Putting on his golden sandals to walk from mountain to mountain,
* He takes his way, girding himself with gold & in his hand
* Holding his iron mace: The Spectre remains attentive
* Alternate they watch in night: alternate labour in day
* 80 Before the Furnaces labouring, while Los all night watches
* The stars rising & setting, & the meteors & terrors of night!
* With him went down the Dogs of Leutha, at his feet
* They lap the water of the trembling Thames then follow swift
* And thus he heard the voice of Albions daughters on Euphrates,
* 85 Our Father Albions land: O it was a lovely land! & the Daughters of Beulah
* Walked up and down in its green mountains: but Hand is fled
* Away: & mighty Hyle: & after them Jerusalem is gone: Awake[...]