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Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "98"

Lettered inside image: "Then each an Arrow flaming from his Quiver fitted carefully: | They drew fourfold the unreprovable String, bending thro' the wide Heavens | The horned Bow Fourfold, loud sounding flew the flaming Arrow fourfold. | Murmuring the Bowstring breathes with ardor. Clouds roll round the horns | Of the wide Bow, loud sounding Winds sport on the Mountains' brows: | The Druid Spectre was Annihilate, loud thund'ring, rejoicing terrific, vanishing, | Fourfold Annihilation, & at the clangor of the Arrows of Intellect | The innumerable Chariots of the Almighty appear 'd in Heaven, | And Bacon & Newton & Locke, & Milton & Shakspear & Chaucer. | A Sun of blood red wrath surrounding heaven on all sides around, | Glorious, incomprehensible by Mortal Man, & each Chariot was Sexual Twofold. | And every Man stood Fourfold, each Four Faces had, One to the West, | One toward the East, One to the South, One to the North, the Horses Fourfold. | And the dim Chaos brighten'd beneath, above, around ! Eyed as the Peacock | According to the Human Nerves of Sensation, the Four Rivers of the Water of Life. | South stood the Nerves of the Eye, East in Rivers of bliss the Nerves of the | Expansive Nostrils, West flow'd the Parent Sense, the Tongue, North stood | The labyrinthine Ear: Circumscribing & Circumcising the excrementitious | Husk & Covering into Vacuum evaporating, revealing the lineaments of Man, | Driving outward the Body of Death in an Eternal Death & Resurrection, | Awaking it to Life among the Flowers of Beulah, rejoicing in Unity | In the Four Senses, in the Outline, the Circumference & Form, for ever | In Forgiveness of Sins which is Self Annihilation, it is the Covenant of Jehovah. | The Four Living Creatures, Chariots of Humanity, Divine, Incomprehensible, | In beautiful Paradises expand. These are the Four Rivers of Paradise, | And the Four Faces of Humanity fronting the Four Cardinal Points | Of Heaven, going forward, forward irresistible from Eternity to Eternity. | And they conversed together in Visionary forms dramatic, which bright | Redounded from their Tongues in thunderous majesty, in Visions, | In new Expanses, creating exemplars of Memory and of Intellect : | Creating Space, Creating Time according to the wonders Divine | Of Human Imagination, throughout all the Three Regions immense | Of Childhood, Manhood & Old Age: & the all tremendous unfathomable Non Ens | Of Death was seen in regeneration terrific or complacent, varying | According to the subject of discourse, & every Word & every Character | Was Human according to the Expansion or Contraction, the Translucence or | Opakeness of Nervous fibres: such was the variation of Time & Space, | Which vary according as the Organs of Perception vary: & they walked | To & fro in Eternity as One Man, reflecting each in each & clearly seen | And seeing: according to fitness & order. And I heard Jehovah speak | Terrific from his Holy Place, & saw the Words of the Mutual Covenant Divine | On Chariots of gold & jewels with Living Creatures, starry & flaming | With every Colour. Lion, Tyger, Horse, Elephant, Eagle, Dove, Fly, Worm, | And the all wondrous Serpent clothed in gems & rich array, Humanize | In the Forgiveness of Sins according to thy Covenant, Jehovah! They Cry: | Where is the Covenant of Priam, the Moral Virtues of the Heathen? | Where is the Tree of Good & Evil that rooted beneath the cruel heel | Of Albion's Spectre, the Patriarch Druid! where are all his Human Sacrifices | For Sin, in War & in the Druid Temples of the Accuser of Sin; beneath | The Oak Groves of Albion that cover'd the whole Earth beneath his Spectre? | Where are the Kingdoms of the World & all their glory that grew on Desolation, | The Fruit of Albion's Poverty Tree, when the Triple Headed Gog-Magog Giant | Of Albion Taxed the Nations into Desolation, & then gave the Spectrous Oath? | Such is the Cry from all the Earth, from the Living Creatures of the Earth, | And from the great City of Golgonooza in the Shadowy Generation, | And from the Thirty-two Nations of the Earth among the Living Creatures."