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 Loud roll the Weights & Spindles over the whole Earth let down

On all sides round to the Four Quarters of the World, eastward on

Europe to Euphrates & Hindu to Nile & back in Clouds

Of Death across the Atlantic to America North & South.

So spake Ololon in reminiscence astonish'd, but they

Could not behold Golgonooza without passing the Polypus,

A wondrous journey not passable by Immortal feet, & none

But the Divine Saviour can pass it without annihilation.

For Golgonooza cannot be seen till having pass'd the Polypus

It is viewed on all sides round by a Four-fold Vision,

Or till you become Mortal & Vegetable in Sexuality

Then you behold its mighty Spires & Domes of ivory & gold

And Ololon examined all the Couches of the Dead,

Even of Los & Enitharmon & all the Sons of Albion

And his Four Zoas terrified & on the verge of Death:

In midst of these was Milton's Couch, & when they saw Eight

Immortal Starry-Ones, guarding the Couch in flaming fires,

They thunderous utter'd all a universal groan falling down

Prostrate before the Starry Eight asking with tears forgiveness,

Confessing their crime with humiliation and sorrow.

O how the Starry Eight rejoic'd to see Ololon descended:

And now that a wide road was open to Eternity

By Ololon's descent thro' Beulah to Los & Enitharmon.

For mighty were the multitudes of Ololon, vast the extent

Of their great sway reaching from Ulro to Eternity,

Surrounding the Mundane Shell outside in its Caverns

And through Beulah, and all silent forbare to contend

With Ololon, for they saw the Lord in the Clouds of Ololon.

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find,

Nor can his Watch Fiends find it, but the Industrious find

This Moment & it multiply, & when it once is found

It renovates every Moment of the Day if rightly placed:

In this Moment Ololon descended to Los & Enitharmon

Unseen beyond the Mundane Shell, Southward in Milton's track.

Just in this Moment when the morning odours rise abroad,

And first from the Wild Thyme, stands a Fountain in a rock

Of crystal flowing into two Streams, one flows thro' Golgonooza

And thro' Beulah to Eden beneath Los's western Wall:

The other flows thro' the Aerial Void & all the Churches 37