# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 86

Written and etched 1804-1820. Source: Blake: The Complete Poetry & Prose (David. V. Erdman) In the internet: www.blakearchive.org
* PLATE 86
* I see thy Form O lovely mild Jerusalem, Wingd with Six Wings
* In the opacous Bosom of the Sleeper, lovely Three-fold
* In Head & Heart & Reins, three Universes of love & beauty
* Thy forehead bright: Holiness to the Lord, with Gates of pearl
* 5 Reflects Eternity beneath thy azure wings of feathery down
* Ribbd delicate & clothd with featherd gold & azure & purple
* From thy white shoulders shadowing, purity in holiness!
* Thence featherd with soft crimson of the ruby bright as fire
* Spreading into the azure Wings which like a canopy
* 10 Bends over thy immortal Head in which Eternity dwells
* Albion beloved Land; I see thy mountains & thy hills
* And valleys & thy pleasant Cities Holiness to the Lord
* I see the Spectres of thy Dead O Emanation of Albion.
* Thy Bosom white, translucent coverd with immortal gems
* 15 A sublime ornament not obscuring the outlines of beauty
* Terrible to behold for thy extreme beauty & perfection
* Twelve-fold here all the Tribes of Israel I behold
* Upon the Holy Land: I see the River of Life & Tree of Life
* I see the New Jerusalem descending out of Heaven
* 20 Between thy Wings of gold & silver featherd immortal
* Clear as the rainbow, as the cloud of the Suns tabernacle
* Thy Reins coverd with Wings translucent sometimes covering
* And sometimes spread abroad reveal the flames of holiness
* Which like a robe covers: & like a Veil of Seraphim
* 25 In flaming fire unceasing burns from Eternity to Eternity
* Twelvefold I there behold Israel in her Tents
* A Pillar of a Cloud by day: a Pillar of fire by night
* Guides them: there I behold Moab & Ammon & Amalek
* There Bells of silver round thy knees living articulate
* 30 Comforting sounds of love & harmony & on thy feet
* Sandals of gold & pearl, & Egypt & Assyria before me
* The Isles of Javan, Philistea, Tyre and Lebanon
* Thus Los sings upon his Watch walking from Furnace to Furnace.
* He siezes his Hammer every hour, flames surround him as
* 35 He beats: seas roll beneath his feet, tempests muster
* Arou[n]d his head. the thick hail stones stand ready to obey
* His voice in the black cloud, his Sons labour in thunders
* At his Furnaces; his Daughters at their Looms sing woes
* His Emanation separates in milky fibres agonizing
* 40 Among the golden Looms of Cathedron sending fibres of love
* From Golgonooza with sweet visions for Jerusalem, wanderer.
* Nor can any consummate bliss without being Generated
* On Earth; of those whose Emanations weave the loves
* Of Beulah for Jerusalem & Shiloh, in immortal Golgonooza
* 45 Concentering in the majestic form of Erin in eternal tears
* Viewing the Winding Worm on the Desarts of Great Tartary
* Viewing Los in his shudderings, pouring balm on his sorrows
* So dread is Los's fury, that none dare him to approach
* Without becoming his Children in the Furnaces of affliction
* 50 And Enitharmon like a faint rainbow waved before him
* Filling with Fibres from his loins which reddend with desire
* Into a Globe of blood beneath his bosom trembling in darkness
* Of Albions clouds. he fed it, with his tears & bitter groans
* Hiding his Spectre in invisibility from the timorous Shade
* 55 Till it became a separated cloud of beauty grace & love
* Among the darkness of his Furnaces dividing asunder till
* She separated stood before him a lovely Female weeping
* Even Enitharmon separated outside, & his Loins closed
* And heal'd after the separation: his pains he soon forgot:
* 60 Lured by her beauty outside of himself in shadowy grief.
* Two Wills they had; Two Intellects: & not as in times of old.
* Silent they wanderd hand in hand like two Infants wandring
* From Enion in the desarts, terrified at each others beauty
* Envying each other yet desiring, in all devouring Love,