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Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "16"

Lettered upper right: "16"; inside image: "Hampstead, Highgate, Finchley, Hendon, Muswell Hill, rage loud | Before Bromion's iron Tongs & glowing Poker reddening fierce; | Hertfordshire glows with fierce Vegetation; in the Forests | The Oak frowns terrible, the Beech & Ash & Elm enroot | Among the Spiritual fires : loud the Corn-fields thunder along | The Soldier's Fife, the Harlot's shriek, the Virgin's dismal groan, | The Parent's fear, the Brother's jealousy, the Sister's curse, | Beneath the Storms of Theotormon, & the thund'ring Bellows | Heaves in the hand of Palamabron, who in London's darkness | Before the Anvil watches the bellowing flames : thundering | The Hammer loud rages in Rintrah's strong grasp, swinging loud | Round from heaven to earth, down falling with heavy blow | Dead on the Anvil, where the red hot wedge groans in pain. | He quenches it in the black trough of his Forge : London's River | Feeds the dread Forge, trembling & shuddering along the Valleys. | Humber & Trent roll dreadful before the Seventh Furnace, | And Tweed & Tyne anxious give up their souls for Albion's sake. | Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, | From Oxfordshire to Norfolk on the Lake of Udan Adan | Labour within the Furnaces, walking among the Fires, | With Ladles huge & iron Pokers over the Island white. | Scotland pours out his Sons to labour at the Furnaces: | Wales gives his Daughters to the Looms; England, nursing Mothers | Gives to the Children of Albion & to the Children of Jerusalem. | From the blue Mundane Shell even to the Earth of Vegetation, | Throughout the whole Creation which groans to be deliver'd, | Albion groans in the deep slumbers of Death upon his Rock. | Here Los fix'd down the Fifty-two Counties of England & Wales, | The Thirty-six of Scotland, & the Thirty-four of Ireland, | With mighty power, when they fled out at Jerusalem's Gates, | Away from the Conflict of Luvah & Urizen, fixing the Gates | In the Twelve Counties of Wales, & thence Gates looking every way, | To the Four Points, conduct to England & Scotland & Ireland, | And thence to all the Kingdoms & Nations & Families of the Earth. | The Gate of Reuben in Carmarthenshire: the Gate of Simeon in | Cardiganshire : & the Gate of Levi in Montgomeryshire : | The Gate of Judah, Merionethshire: the Gate of Dan, Flintshire: | The Gate of Napthali, Radnorshire : the Gate of Gad, Pembrokeshire : | The Gate of Asher, Carnarvonshire : the Gate of Issachar, Brecknokshire : | The Gate of Zebulun, in Anglesea & Sodor, so is Wales divided, | The Gate of Joseph, Denbighshire: the Gate of Benjamin, Glamorganshire: | For the protection of the Twelve Emanations of Albion's Sons. | And the Forty Counties of England are thus divided in the Gates: | Of Reuben, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex. Simeon, Lincoln, York, Lancashire. | Levi, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey. Judah, Somerset, Glouster, Wiltshire. | Dan, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset. Napthali, Warwick, Leicester, Worcester. | Gad, Oxford, Bucks, Harford. Asher, Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire. | Issachar, Northampton, Rutland, Nottgham. Zebulun, Bedford, Huntgn, Camb. | Joseph, Stafford, Shrops, Heref. Benjamin, Derby, Cheshire, Monmouth. | And Cumberland, Northumberland, Westmoreland & Durham are | Divided in the the Gates of Reuben, Judah, Dan & Joseph. | And the Thirty-six Counties of Scotland, divided in the Gates : | Of Reuben, Kincard, Haddntn, Forfar. Simeon, Ayr, Argyll, Banff. | Levi, Edinburh, Roxbro, Ross. Judah, Abrdeen, Berwik, Dumfries. | Dan, Bute, Caitnes, Clakmanan. Napthali, Nairn, Invernes, Linlithgo. | Gad, Peebles, Perth, Renfru. Asher, Sutherlan, Stirling, Wigtoun. | Issachar, Selkirk, Dumbartn, Glasgo. Zebulun, Orkney, Shetland, Skye. | Joseph, Elgin, Lanerk, Kinros. Benjamin, Kromarty, Murra, Kirkubriht. | Governing all by the sweet delights of secret amorous glances, | In Enitharmon's Halls builded by Los & his mighty Children. | All things acted on Earth are seen in the bright Sculptures of | Los's Halls, & every Age renews its powers from these Works, | With every pathetic story possible to happen from Hate or | Wayward Love, & every sorrow & distress is carved here, | Every Affinity of Parents, Marriages & Friendships are here | In all their various combinations wrought with wondrous Art, | All that can happen to Man in his pilgrimage of seventy years. | Such is the Divine Written Law of Horeb & Sinai : | And such the Holy Gospel of Mount Olivet & Calvary;..."