The Book of Los

William Blake

4 chapters · about 5 min

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The opening

CHAP I

1: Eno aged Mother, Who the chariot of Leutha guides, Since the day of thunders in old time

2: Sitting beneath the eternal Oak Trembled and shook the stedfast Earth And thus her speech broke forth.

3: O Times remote! When Love & joy were adoration: And none impure were deem’d. Not Eyeless Covet Nor Thin-lip’d Envy Nor Bristled Wrath Nor Curled Wantonness

4: But Covet was poured full: Envy fed with fat of lambs: Wrath with lions gore: Wantonness lulld to sleep With the virgins lute, Or sated with her love.

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