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 Who calls the Individual Law Holy, and despises the Saviour,

Glorying to involve Albion's Body in fires of eternal War?

Now Leutha ceas'd: tears flow'd: but the Divine Pity supported her.

All is my fault! We are the Spectre of Luvah, the murderer

Of Albion! O Vala! O Luvah! O Albion! O lovely Jerusalem!

The Sin was begun in Eternity and will not rest to Eternity,

Till two Eternitys meet together. Ah! lost! lost! lost! for ever!

So Leutha spoke. But when she saw that Enitharmon had

Created a New Space to protect Satan from punishment:

She fled to Enitharmon's Tent & hid herself. Loud raging

Thunder'd the Assembly dark & clouded, and they ratify'd

The kind decision of Enitharmon, & gave a Time to the Space,

Even Six Thousand years, and sent Lucifer for its Guard.

But Lucifer refus'd to die, & in pride he forsook his charge:

And they elected Molech, and when Molech was impatient

The Divine hand found the Two Limits: first of Opacity, then of Contraction.

Opacity was named Satan, Contraction was named Adam.

Triple Elohim came: Elohim wearied fainted: they elected Shaddai:

Shaddai angry, Pahad descended: Pahad terrified, they sent Jehovah,

And Jehovah was leprous; loud he call'd stretching his hand to Eternity.

For then the Body of Death was perfected in hypocritic holiness,

Around the Lamb, a Female Tabernacle woven in Cathedron's Looms.

He died as a Reprobate, he was Punish'd as a Transgressor:

Glory! Glory! Glory! to the Holy Lamb of God!

I touch the heavens as an instrument to glorify the Lord!

The Elect shall meet the Redeem'd on Albion's rocks they shall meet

Astonish'd at the Transgressor, in him beholding the Saviour.

And the Elect shall say to the Redeemed: We behold it is of Divine

Mercy alone, of Free Gift and Election that we live:

Our Virtues & Cruel Goodnesses have deserv'd Eternal Death,

Thus they weep upon the fatal Brook of Albion's River.

But Elynittria met Leutha in the place where she was hidden,

And threw aside her arrows, and laid down her sounding Bow:

She sooth'd her with soft words & brought her to Palamabron's bed.

In moments new created for delusion interwoven round about,

In dreams she bore the shadowy Spectre of Sleep & nam'd him Death:

In dreams she bore Rahab the mother of Tirzah & her sisters

In Lambeth's vales; in Cambridge & in Oxford, places of Thought,

Intricate labyrinths of Times and Spaces unknown, that Leutha lived 9