Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
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Chap: I
Of the Sleep of Ulro! and of the passage through Eternal Death! and of the awaking to Eternal Life.
This theme calls me in sleep night after night, & ev’ry morn Awakes me at sun-rise, then I see the Saviour over me Spreading his beams of love, & dictating the words of this mild song.
Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows, wake! expand! I am in you and you in me, mutual in love divine: Fibres of love from man to man thro Albions pleasant land. In all the dark Atlantic vale down from the hills of Surrey A black water accumulates, return Albion! return! Thy brethren call thee, and thy fathers, and thy sons, Thy nurses and thy mothers, thy sisters and thy daughters Weep at thy souls disease, and the Divine Vision is darkend: Thy Emanation that was wont to play before thy face, Beaming forth with her daughters into the Divine bosom [Where!!] Where hast thou hidden thy Emanation lovely Jerusalem From the vision and fruition of the Holy-one? I am not a God afar off, I am a brother and friend; Within your bosoms I reside, and you reside in me: Lo! we are One; forgiving all Evil; Not seeking recompense! Ye are my members O ye sleepers of Beulah, land of shades!
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About this edition
- The words
- The author's text, copied word for word.
- Left out
- The source website's menus, layout and notices, in 3 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 6 places
- Other material that isn't the author's, in 6 places
- The work's title line "Jerusalem" above Blake's heading "Chap 3." on plate 53 (title line)
- Wikisource's page heading "Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. Chapter IV" on the plate 78 page
- Pictures and their captions, in 2 places
- Wikisource's "* * *" headings at the top of plate pages and between sections (not on Blake's plates) (17 blocks)
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages
- The work's title line "Jerusalem" above Blake's chapter headings (plates 4, 28, 53, 78)