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Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "92"

Lettered inside image: "What do I see! The Briton, Saxon, Roman, Norman amalgamating | In my Furnaces into One Nation, the English : & taking refuge | In the Loins of Albion. The Canaanite united with the fugitive | Hebrew, whom she divided into Twelve, & sold into Egypt, | Then scatter'd the Egyptian & Hebrew to the four Winds: | This sinful Nation Created in our Furnaces & Looms is Albion. | So Los spoke. Enitharmon answer'd in great terror in Lambeth's Vale | The Poet's Song draws to its period & Enitharmon is no more. | For if he be that Albion I can never weave him in my Looms, | But when he touches the first fibrous thread, like filmy dew | My Looms will be no more & I annihilate vanish for ever. | Then thou wilt Create another Female according to thy Will. | Los answer'd, swift as the shuttle of gold. Sexes must vanish & cease | To be, when Albion arises from his dread repose, O lovely Enitharmon ; | When all their Crimes, their Punishments their Accusations of Sin, | All their Jealousies, Revenges, Murders, hidings of Cruelty in Deceit, | Appear only in the Outward Spheres of Visionary Space and Time, | In the shadows of Possibility by Mutual Forgiveness for evermore, | And in the Vision & in the Prophecy, that we may Foresee & Avoid | The terrors of Creation & Redemption & Judgment. Beholding them | Display 'd in the Emanative Visions of Canaan, in Jerusalem & in Shiloh, | And in the Shadows of Remembrance, & in the Chaos of the Spectre, | Amalek, Edom, Egypt, Moab, Ammen, Asshur, Philistea, around Jerusalem: | Where the Druids rear'd their Rocky Circles to make permanent Remembrance | Of Sin, & the Tree of Good & Evil sprang from the Rocky Circle & Snake | Of the Druid, along the Valley of Rephaim from Camberwell to Golgotha, | And framed the Mundane Shell Cavernous in Length, Breadth & Highth."; center right: "Jerusalem"