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Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "49"

Lettered inside image: "The secret coverts of Albion & the hidden places of America. | Jerusalem! Jerusalem 1 why wilt thou turn away? | Come ye O Daughters of Beulah, lament for Og & Sihon, | Upon the Lakes of Ireland from Rathlen to Baltimore: | Stand ye upon the Dargle from Wicklow to Drogheda, | Come & mourn over Albion the White Cliff of the Atlantic, | The Mountain of Giants: all the Giants of Albion are become | Weak, wither'd, darken'd: & Jerusalem is cast forth from Albion. | They deny that they ever knew Jerusalem, or ever dwelt in Shiloh. | The Gigantic roots & twigs of the vegetating Sons of Albion | Fill'd with the little-ones are consumed in the Fires of their Altars. | The vegetating Cities are burned & consumed from the Earth. | And the Bodies in which all Animals & Vegetations, the Earth & Heaven, | Were contain'd in All Glorious Imagination are wither'd & darken'd: | The golden Gate of Havilah, and all the Garden of God, | Was caught up with the Sun in one day of fury and war: | The Lungs, the Heart, the Liver, shrunk away far distant from Man | And left a little slimy substance floating upon the tides. | In one night the Atlantic Continent was caught up with the Moon, | And became an Opake Globe far distant clad with moony beams. | The Visions of Eternity, by reason of narrowed perceptions, | Are become weak Visions of Time & Space, fix'd into furrows of death: | Till deep dissimulation is the only defence an honest man has left. | O Polypus of Death, O Speclre over Europe and Asia, | Withering the Human Form by Laws of Sacrifice for Sin, | By Laws of Chastity & Abhorrence I am wither'd up, | Striving to Create a Heaven in which all shall be pure & holy | In their Own Selfhoods, in Natural Selfish Chastity: to banish Pity | And dear Mutual Forgiveness: & to become One Great Satan | Inslav'd to the most powerful Selfhood: to murder the Divine Humanity | In whose sight all are as the dust & who chargeth his Angels with folly! | Ah! weak &. wide astray! Ah shut in narrow doleful form! | Creeping in reptile flesh upon the bosom of the ground! | The Eye of Man, a little narrow orb, clos'd up & dark, | Scarcely beholding the Great Light, conversing with the ground: | The Ear, a little shell, in small volutions shutting out | True Harmonies, & comprehending great, as very small: | The Nostrils, bent down to the earth & clos'd with senseless flesh, | That odours cannot them expand, nor joy on them exult: | The Tongue, a little moisture fills, a little food it cloys, | A little sound it utters, & its cries are faintly heard, | Therefore they are removed: therefore they have taken root | In Egypt & Philistea: in Moab & Edom & Aram: | In the Erythrean Sea their Uncircumcision in Heart & Loins | Be lost for ever & ever, then they shall arise from Self | By Self Annihilation into Jerusalem's Courts & into Shiloh, | Shiloh, the Masculine Emanation among the flowers of Beulah | Lo, Shiloh dwells over France, as Jerusalem dwells over Albion. | Build & prepare a Wall & Curtain for America's shore! | Rush on! Rush on! Rush on! ye vegetating Sons of Albion ! | The Sun shall go before you in Day: the Moon shall go | Before you in Night. Come on! Come on! Come on! The Lord | Jehovah is before, behind, above, beneath, around. | He has builded the arches of Albion's Tomb, binding the Stars | In merciful Order, bending the Laws of Cruelty to Peace. | He hath placed Og & Anak, the Giants of Albion, for their Guards: | Building the Body of Moses in the Valley of Peor: the Body | Of Divine Analogy : and Og & Sihon in the tears of Balaam, | The Son of Beor, have given their power to Joshua & Caleb. | Remove from Albion, far remove these terrible surfaces. | They are beginning to form Heavens & Hells in immense | Circles: the Hells for food to the Heavens: food of torment, | Food of despair: they drink the condemnd Soul & rejoice | In cruel holiness, in their Heavens of Chastity & Uncircumcision. | Yet they are blameless & Iniquity must be imputed only | To the State they are enter'd into that they may be deliver 'd: | Satan is the State of Death, & not a Human existence: | But Luvah is named Satan, because he has enter'd that State. | A World where Man is by Nature the Enemy of Man, | Because the Evil is Created into a State, that Men | May be deliver'd time after time, evermore. Amen. | Learn therefore, O Sisters, to distinguish the Eternal Human | That walks about among the stones of fire, in bliss & woe | Alternate, from those States or Worlds in which the Spirit travels: | This is the only means to Forgiveness of Enemies. | Therefore remove from Albion these terrible Surfaces | And let wild seas & rocks close up Jerusalem away from | The"