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Lettered inside image: "London | And the voices of Bath & Canterbury & York & Edinburgh, Cry | Over the Plow of Nations in the strong hand of Albion, thundering along | Among the Fires of the Druid & the deep black rethundering Waters | Of the Atlantic which poured in impetuous loud, loud, louder & louder. | And the Great Voice of the Atlantic howled over the Druid Altars: | Weeping over his Children in Stone-henge, in Maiden & Colchester, | Round the Rocky Peak of Derbyshire, London Stone & Rosamond's Bower. | What is a Wife & what is a Harlot? What is a Church? & What | Is a Theatre? are they Two & not One? can they Exist Separate? | Are not Religion & Politics the Same Thing? Brotherhood is Religion, | O Demonstrations of Reason, Dividing Families in Cruelty & Pride! | But Albion fled from the Divine Vision with the Plow of Nations enflaming, | The Living Creatures madden'd and Albion fell into the Furrow, and | The Plow went over him & the Living was Plowed in among the Dead: | But his Spectre rose over the starry Plow. Albion fled beneath the Plow | Till he came to the Rock of Ages, & he took his Seat upon the Rock. | Wonder siez'd all in Eternity : to behold the Divine Vision open | The Center into an Expanse, & the Center rolled out into an Expanse."; lower center: "Jerusalem"