Page:Works of William Blake; poetic, symbolic, and critical (1893) Volume 2.djvu/52

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 * Never, never I return.
 * Still for victory I burn.
 * Living, thee alone I'll have,
 * And when dead I'll be thy grave.


 * 10.
 * Through the Heaven and Earth and Hell
 * Thou shalt never, never quell,
 * I will fly and thou pursue,
 * Night and morn the flight renew.


 * 11.
 * Till I turn from female love
 * And root up the infernal grove
 * I shall never worthy be
 * To step into Eternity.


 * 12.
 * And I to end thy cruel mocks
 * Annihilate thee on the rocks,
 * And another form create
 * To be subservient to my fate.


 * 13.
 * Let us agree to give up love
 * And root up the infernal grove.
 * Then shall we return and see
 * The worlds of happy Eternity.


 * 14.
 * And throughout all Eternity
 * I forgive you, you forgive me,
 * As I, dear Redeemer, said: —
 * This the wine and this the bread.

The above is the true text of this poem with the numbering of the verses as finally arranged after three re-considerations by Blake. Not a word is altered from the original. The poem as printed in the Aldine Edition and elsewhere is erroneously arranged, partly from numberings of verses put experimentally and then erased by Blake.

Before looking for the meaning of this we must once more remind ourselves that sin and righteousness should always be attributed to States, or moods; never to Individuals.

The essential sign and unfailing indication of sin is to be found in the denial by one human mood of another human