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Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "73"

Lettered inside image: "Such are Cathedron's golden Halls in the City of Golgonooza. | And Los's Furnaces howl loud, living, self-moving, lamenting | With fury & despair, & they stretch from South to North | Thro' all the Four Points: Lo! the Labourers at the Furnaces, | Rintrah & Palamabron, Theotormon & Bromion, loud lab'ring | With the innumerable multitudes of Golgonooza, round the Anvils | Of Death. But how they came forth from the Furnaces & how long, | Vast & severe the anguish e'er they knew their Father, were | Long to tell, & of the iron rollers, golden axle-trees & yokes | Of Brass, iron chains & braces & the gold, silver & brass, | Mingled or separate: for swords, arrows, cannons, mortars, | The terrible ball, the wedge, the loud sounding hammer of destruction, | The sounding flail to thresh, the winnow to winnow kingdoms, | The water wheel & mill of many innumerable wheels resistless, | Over the Four fold Monarchy from Earth to the Mundane Shell. | Perusing Albion's Tomb in the starry characters of Og & Anak: | To Create the lion & wolf, the bear, the tyger & ounce: | To Create the wooly lamb & downy fowl & scaly serpent, | The summer & winter, day & night, the sun & moon & stars, | The tree, the plant, the flower, the rock, the stone, the metal, | Of Vegetative Nature: by their hard restricting condensations. | Where Luvah's World of Opakeness grew to a period, It | Became a Limit, a Rocky hardness without form & void, | Accumulating without end: here Los, who is of the Elohim, | Opens the Furnaces of affliction in the Emanation, | Fixing the Sexual into an ever-prolific Generation, | Naming the Limit of Opakeness, Satan, & the Limit of Contraction, | Adam, who is Peleg & Joktan: & Esau & Jacob: & Saul & David. | Voltaire insinuates that these Limits are the cruel work of God, | Mocking the Remover of Limits & the Resurrection of the Dead, | Setting up Kings in wrath: in holiness of Natural Religion. | Which Los with his mighty Hammer demolishes time on time | In miracles & wonders in the Four-fold Desart of Albion, | Permanently Creating to be in Time Reveal'd & Demolish'd. | Satan, Cain, Tubal, Nimrod, Pharoh, Priam, Bladud, Belin, | Arthur, Alfred, the Norman Conqueror, Richard, John, | And all the Kings & Nobles of the Earth & all their Glories. | These are Created by Rahab & Tirzah in Ulro: but around | These, to preserve them from Eternal Death, Los Creates | Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David, Ezekiel, | Dissipating the rocky forms of Death, by his thunderous Hammer. | As the Pilgrim passes while the Country permanent remains, | So Men pass on ; but States remain permanent for ever. | The Spectres of the Dead howl round the porches of Los, | In the terrible Family feuds of Albion's cities & villages, | To devour the Body of Albion, hung'ring & thirsting & rav'ning. | The Sons of Los clothe them & feed & provide houses & gardens: | And every Human Vegetated Form in its inward recesses | Is a house of pleantness & a garden of delight, Built by the | Sons & Daughters of Los in Bowlahoola & in Cathedron. | From London to York & Edinburgh the Furnaces rage terrible: | Primrose Hill is the mouth of the Furnace & the Iron Door:"