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Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "93"

Lettered inside image: "Anytus | Melitus | & Lycon | thought Socrates a Very Pernicious Man | So Caiphas thought Jesus | Enitharmon heard. She rais'd her head like the mild Moon. | O Rintrah! O Palamabron! What are your dire & awful purposes? | Enitharmon's name is nothing before you: you forget all my Love, | The Mother's love of obedience is forgotten, & you seek a Love | Of the pride of dominion, that will Divorce Ocalythron & Elynittria, | Upon East Moor in Derbyshire & along the Valleys of Cheviot. | Could you Love me, Rintrah, if you Pride not in my Love, | As Reuben found Mandrakes in the field & gave them to his Mother. | Pride meets with Pride upon the Mountains in the stormy day | In that terrible Day of Rintrah's Plow & of Satan's driving the Team. | Ah! then I heard my little ones weeping along the Valley: | Ah! then I saw my beloved ones fleeing from my Tent. | Merlin was like thee Rintrah among the Giants of Albion, | Judah was like Palamabron: O Simeon! O Levi! ye fled away! | How can I hear my little ones weeping along the Valley, | Or how upon the distant Hills see my beloveds' Tents. | Then Los again took up his speech as Enitharmon ceas't. | Fear not, my Sons, this Waking Death, he is become One with me. | Behold him here! We shall not Die! we shall be united in Jesus. | Will you suffer this Satan, this Body of Doubt that Seems but Is Not, | To occupy the very threshold of Eternal Life, if Bacon, Newton, Locke, | Deny a Conscience in Man & the Communion of Saints & Angels; | Contemning the Divine Vision & Fruition, Worshipping the Deus | Of the Heathen, The God of This World, & the Goddess Nature, | Mystery, Babylon the Great, The Druid Dragon & hidden Harlot. | Is it not that Signal of the Morning which was told us in the Beginning? | Thus they converse upon Mam-Tor, the Graves thunder under their feet."