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Inscribed in graphite upper right: "12"

Lettered inside image, center: "Urizen. C:IV"; left: "7. From the caverns of his jointed Spine, | Down sunk with fright a red | Round globe hot burning deep | Deep down into the Abyss: | Panting: Conglobing, Trembling | Shooting out ten thousand branches | Around his solid bones. | And a second Age passed over, | And a state of dismal woe. | 8. In harrowing fear rolling round; | His nervous brain shot branches | Round the branches of his heart. | On high into two little orbs | And fixed in two little caves"; right: "Hiding carefully from the wind, | His Eyes beheld the deep. | And a third Age passed over; | and a state of dismal woe. | 9. The pangs of hope began. | In heavy pain striving. struggling. | Two Ears in close volutions. | From beneath his orbs of vision | Shot spiring out, and petrified | As they grew. And a fourth Age passed | And a state of dismal woe. | 10. In ghastly torment sick; | Hanging upon the wind;"