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Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "7"

Lettered upper right: "7"; inside image: "Was living: panting like a frighted wolf, and howling | He stood over the Immortal, in the solitude and darkness: | Upon the dark'ning Thames, across the whole Island westward, | A horrible Shadow of Death, among the Furnaces : beneath | The pillar of folding smoke; and he sought by other means | To lure Los: by tears, by arguments of science & by terrors: | Terrors in every Nerve, by spasms & extended pains: | While Los answer'd unterrified to the opake blackening Fiend. | And thus the Spectre spake: Wilt thou still go on to destruction | Till thy life is all taken away by this deceitful Friendship? | He drinks thee up like water: like wine he pours thee | Into his tuns: thy Daughters are trodden in his vintage. | He makes thy Sons the trampling of his bulls, they are plow'd | And harrow'd for his profit, thy stolen Emanation | Is his garden of pleasure! all the Spectres of his Sons mock thee; | Look how they scorn thy once admired palaces, now in ruins | Because of Albion; because of deceit and friendship; For Lo! | Hand has peopled Babel & Nineveh; Hyle, Ashur & Aram: | Cohan's son is Nimrod: his son Cush is adjoin'd to Aram, | By the Daughter of Babel, in a woven mantle of pestilence & war. | They put forth their spectrous cloudy sails; which drive their immense | Constellations over the deadly deeps of indefinite Udan-Adan. | Kox is the Father of Shem & Ham & Japheth, he is the Noah | Of the Flood of Udan-Adan. Hutn is the Father of the Seven | From Enoch to Adam: Schofield is Adam who was New- | Created in Edom. I saw it indignant, & thou art not moved! | This has divided thee in sunder: and wilt thou still forgive? | O! thou seest not what I see! what is done in the Furnaces. | Listen, I will tell thee what is done in moments to thee unknown: | Luvah was cast into the Furnaces of affliction and sealed, | And Vala fed, in cruel delight, the Furnaces with fire: | Stern Urizen beheld; urg'd by necessity to keep | The evil day afar, and if perchance with iron power | He might avert his own despair: in woe & fear he saw | Vala incircle round the Furnaces where Luvah was clos'd: | With joy she heard his howlings, & forgot he was her Luvah, | With whom she liv'd in bliss in times of innocence & youth: | Vala comes from the Furnace in a cloud, but wretched Luvah | Is howling in the Furnaces, in flames among Albion's Spectres, | To prepare the Spectre of Albion to reign over thee O Los, | Forming the Spectres of Albion according to his rage: | To prepare the Spectre sons of Adam, who is Scofield: the Ninth | Of Albion's sons, & the father of all his brethren in the Shadowy | Generation. Cambel & Gwendolen wove webs of war & of | Religion, to involve all Albion's sons, and when they had | Involv'd Eight, their webs roll'd outwards into darkness | And Scofield the Ninth remain'd on the outside of the Eight, | And Kox, Kotope, & Bowen,' One in him, a Fourfold Wonder, | Involv'd the Eight. Such are the Generations of the Giant Albion, | To separate a Law of Sin, to punish thee in thy members. | Los answer'd. Altho' I know not this! I know far worse than this: | I know that Albion hath divided me, and that thou O my Spectre, | Hast just cause to be irritated: but look stedfastly upon me: | Comfort thyself in my strength; the time will arrive, | When all Albion's injuries shall cease, and when we shall | Embrace him tenfold bright, rising from his tomb in immortality. | They have divided themselves by Wrath, they must be united by | Pity: let us therefore take example & warning O my Spectre. | O that I could abstain from wrath ! O that the Lamb | Of God would look upon me and pity me in my fury. | In anguish of regeneration : in terrors of self annihilation: | Pity must join together those whom wrath has torn in sunder; | And the Religion of Generation which was meant for the destruction | Of Jerusalem, become her covering, till the time of the End. | O holy Generation, Image of regeneration ! | O point of mutual forgiveness between Enemies ! | Birthplace of the Lamb of God incomprehensible ! | The Dead despise & scorn thee, & cast thee out as accursed: | Seeing the Lamb of God in thy gardens & thy palaces, | Where they desire to place the Abomination of Desolation. | Hand sits before his furnace : scorn of others & furious pride, | Freeze round him to bars of steel & to iron rocks beneath | His feet: indignant self-righteousness like whirlwinds of the north, ..."