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Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "78"

Lettered inside image: "The Spectres of Albion's Twelve Sons revolve mightily | Over the Tomb & over the Body: rav'ning to devour | The Sleeping Humanity. Los with his mace of iron | Walks round: loud his threats, loud his blows fall | On the rocky Spectres, as the Potter breaks his potsherds: | Dashing in pieces Self-righteousnesses, driving them from Albion's | Cliffs: dividing them into Male & Female forms in his Furnaces | And on his Anvils: lest they destroy the Feminine Affections, | They are broken. Loud howl the Spectres in his iron Furnace. | While Los laments at his dire labours, viewing Jerusalem, | Sitting before his Furnaces clothed in sackcloth of hair; | Albion's Twelve Sons surround the Forty-two Gates of Erin, | In terrible armour, raging against the Lamb & against Jerusalem, | Surrounding them with armies to destroy the Lamb of God. | They took their Mother Vala, and they crown'd her with gold: | They nam'd her Rahab, & gave her power over the Earth, | The Concave Earth round Golgonooza in Entuthan Benython, | Even to the stars exalting her Throne, to build beyond the Throne | Of God and the Lamb, to destroy the Lamb & usurp the Throne of God, | Drawing their Ulro Voidness round the Four-fold Humanity. | Naked Jerusalem lay before the Gates upon Mount Zion, | The Hill of Giants, all her foundations levell'd with the dust: | Her Twelve Gates thrown down: her children carried into captivity: | Herself in chains: this from within was seen in a dismal night | Outside, unknown before in Beulah, & the twelve gates were fill'd | With blood: from Japan, eastward, to the Giants causway, west, | In Erin's Continent: and Jerusalem wept upon Euphrates' banks | Disorganiz'd: an evanescent shade, scarce seen or heard among | Her children's Druid Temples, dropping with blood, wander'd weeping! | And thus her voice went forth in the darkness of Philisthea. | My brother & my father are no more! God hath forsaken me! | The arrows of the Almighty pour upon me & my children ! | I have sinned and am an outcast from the Divine Presence !"