# Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 5

Written and etched 1804-1820. Source: Blake: The Complete Poetry & Prose (David. V. Erdman) In the internet: www.blakearchive.org
[ PLATE 5 ]
* The banks of the Thames are clouded! the ancient porches of Albion are
* Darken'd! they are drawn thro' unbounded space, scatter'd upon
* The Void in incoherent despair! Cambridge & Oxford & London,
* Are driven among the starry Wheels, rent away and dissipated,
* 5In Chasms & Abysses of sorrow, enlarg'd without dimension, terrible[.]
* Albions mountains run with blood, the cries of war & of tumult
* Resound into the unbounded night, every Human perfection
* Of mountain & river & city, are small & wither'd & darken'd
* Cam is a little stream! Ely is almost swallowd up!
* 10Lincoln & Norwich stand trembling on the brink of Udan-Adan!
* Wales and Scotland shrink themselves to the west and to the north!
* Mourning for fear of the warriors in the Vale of Entuthon-Benython
* Jerusalem is scatterd abroad like a cloud of smoke thro' non-entity:
* Moab & Ammon & Amalek & Canaan & Egypt & Aram
* 15Recieve her little-ones for sacrifices and the delights of cruelty
* Trembling I sit day and night, my friends are astonish'd at me.
* Yet they forgive my wanderings, I rest not from my great task!
* To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal Eyes
* Of Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into Eternity
* 20Ever expanding in the Bosom of God. the Human Imagination
* O Saviour pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness & love:
* Annihilate the Selfhood in me, be thou all my life!
* Guide thou my hand which trembles exceedingly upon the rock of ages,
* While I write of the building of Golgonooza, & of the terrors of Entuthon:
* 25Of Hand & Hyle & Coban, of Kwantok, Peachey, Brereton, Slayd & Hutton:
* Of the terrible sons & daughters of Albion. and their Generations.
* Scofield! Kox, Kotope and Bowen, revolve most mightily upon
* The Furnace of Los: before the eastern gate bending their fury.
* They war, to destroy the Furnaces, to desolate Golgonooza:
* 30And to devour the Sleeping Humanity of Albion in rage & hunger.
* They revolve into the Furnaces Southward & are driven forth Northward
* Divided into Male and Female forms time after time.
* From these Twelve all the Families of England spread abroad.
* The Male is a Furnace of beryll; the Female is a golden Loom;
* 35I behold them and their rushing fires overwhelm my Soul,
* In Londons darkness; and my tears fall day and night,
* Upon the Emanations of Albions Sons! the Daughters of Albion
* Names anciently rememberd, but now contemn'd as fictions!
* Although in every bosom they controll our Vegetative powers.
* 40These are united into Tirzah and her Sisters, on Mount Gilead,
* Cambel & Gwendolen & Conwenna & Cordella & Ignoge.
* And these united into Rahab in the Covering Cherub on Euphrates
* Gwiniverra & Gwinefred, & Gonorill & Sabrina beautiful,
* 45Estrild, Mehetabel & Ragan, lovely Daughters of Albion
* They are the beautiful Emanations of the Twelve Sons of Albion
* The Starry Wheels revolv'd heavily over the Furnaces;
* Drawing Jerusalem in anguish of maternal love,
* Eastward a pillar of a cloud with Vala upon the mountains
* Howling in pain, redounding from the arms of Beulahs Daughters,
* 50Out from the Furnaces of Los above the head of Los.
* A pillar of smoke writhing afar into Non-Entity, redounding
* Till the cloud reaches afar outstretch'd among the Starry Wheels
* Which revolve heavily in the mighty Void above the Furnaces
* O what avail the loves & tears of Beulahs lovely Daughters
* 55They hold the Immortal Form in gentle bands & tender tears
* But all within is open'd into the deeps of Entuthon Benython
* A dark and unknown night, indefinite, unmeasurable, without end.
* Abstract Philosophy warring in enmity against Imagination
* (Which is the Divine Body of the Lord Jesus. blessed for ever).
* 60And there Jerusalem wanders with Vala upon the mountains,
* Attracted by the revolutions of those Wheels the Cloud of smoke
* Immense, and Jerusalem & Vala weeping in the Cloud
* Wander away into the Chaotic Void, lamenting with her Shadow
* Among the Daughters of Albion, among the Starry Wheels;
* 65Lamenting for her children, for the sons & daughters of Albion
* Los heard her lamentations in the deeps afar! his tears fall
* Incessant before the Furnaces, and his Emanation divided in pain,
* Eastward toward the Starry Wheels. But Westward, a black Horror,