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 Naked in all their beauty dancing round the Wine-presses.

But in the Wine-presses the Human grapes sing not nor dance.

They howl & writhe in shoals of torment: in fierce flames consuming,

In chains of iron & in dungeons circled with ceaseless fires:

In pits & dens & shades of death: in shapes of torment & woe.

The plates & screws & wracks & saws & cords & fires & cisterns,

The cruel joys of Luvah's daughters lacerating with knives

And whips their Victims, & the deadly sport of Luvah's Sons.

They dance around the dying, & they drink the howl & groan,

They catch the shrieks in cups of gold, they hand them to one another:

These are the sports of love, & these the sweet delights of amorous play,

Tears of the grape, the death sweat of the cluster, the last sigh

Of the mild youth who listens to the lureing songs of Luvah.

But Allamanda, call'd on Earth Commerce, is the Cultivated land

Around the City of Golgonooza in the Forests of Entuthon:

Here the Sons of Los labour against Death Eternal; through all

The Twenty-seven Heavens of Beulah in Ulro, Seat of Satan,

Which is the False Tongue beneath Beulah: It is the Sense of Touch.

The Plow goes forth in tempests & lightnings & the Harrow cruel

In blights of the east, the heavy Roller follows in howlings of woe.

Urizen's sons here labour also; & here are seen the Mills

Of Theotormon on the verge of the Lake of Udan-Adan.

These are the starry voids of night & the depths & caverns of earth.

These Mills are oceans, clouds & waters ungovernable in their fury:

Here are the stars created & the seeds of all things planted,

And here the Sun & Moon received their fixed destinations.

But in Eternity the Four Arts: Poetry, Painting, Music,

And Architecture which is Science: are the Four Faces of Man.

Not so in Time & Space: there Three are shut out, and only

Science remains thro' Mercy: & by means of Science the Three

Become apparent in Time & Space in the Three Professions,

Poetry in Religion: Music, Law: Painting, in Physic & Surgery:

That Man may live upon Earth all the time of his awaking.

And from these Three Science derives every Occupation of Men:

And Science is divided into Bowlahoola & Allamanda.

P. 25 LOUD shout the Sons of Luvah at the Wine-presses, as Los descended

With Rintrah & Palamabron in his fires of resistless fury.

The Wine-press on the Rhine groans loud, but all its central beams 24