William Blake

Name: Vala, or The Four Zoas‎: Night the Fourth
Author: William Blake

Vala, or The Four Zoas‎: Night the Fourth

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“Vala, or The Four Zoas‎: Night the Fourth”, is a work by William Blake. It explores elements such as Tharmas, Enitharmon and Urthona.

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William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas‎: Night the Fourth

“ Hitherto shalt thou come. no further. here thy proud waves cease
We have drunk up the Eternal Man by our unbounded power
Beware lest we also drink up thee rough demon of the waters
15 Our God is Urizen the King. King of the Heavenly hosts
We have no other God but he thou father of worms & clay
And he is falln into the Deep rough Demon of the waters
And Los remains God over all, weak father of worms & clay
I know I was Urthona keeper of the gates of heaven
20 But now I am all powerful Los & Urthona is but my shadow
Doubting stood Tharmas in the solemn darkness. ”

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William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas‎: Night the Fourth

“ O why did foul ambition sieze thee Urizen Prince of Light
25 And thee O Luvah prince of Love till Tharmas was divided
And I what can I now behold but an Eternal Death
Before my Eyes & an Eternal weary work to strive
Against the monstrous forms that breed among my silent waves
Is this to be A God far rather would I be a Man
30 To know sweet Science & to do with simple companions
Sitting beneath a tent & viewing sheepfolds & soft pastures
Take thou the hammer of Urthona rebuild these furnaces
Dost thou refuse mind I the sparks that issue from thy hair ”

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William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas‎: Night the Fourth

“ In vain am driven on false hope. hope sister of despair
Groaning the terror rose & drave his solid rocks before
Upon the tide till underneath the feet of Los a World
Dark dreadful rose & Enitharmon lay at Los's feet
10 The dolorous shadow joyd. weak hope appeard around his head
Tharmas before Los stood & thus the Voice of Tharmas rolld
Now all comes into the power of Tharmas. Urizen is falln
And Luvah hidden in the Elemental forms of Life & Death
Urthona is My Son O Los thou art Urthona & Tharmas
15 Is God. ”

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William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas‎: Night the Fourth

“ Go forth bear Enitharmon back to the Eternal Prophet
Build her a bower in the midst of all my dashing waves
20 Make first a resting place for Los & Enitharmon. then
Thou shalt have rest. If thou refusest dashd abroad on all
My waves. thy limbs shall separate in stench & rotting & thou
Become a prey to all my demons of despair & hope
The Spectre of Urthona seeing Enitharmon writhdt
25 His cloudy form in jealous fear & muttering thunders hoarse
And casting round thick glooms. thus utterd his fierce pangs of heart
Tharmas I know thee. ”

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William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas‎: Night the Fourth

“ Are those who love. like those who died. risen again from death
20 Immortal. in immortal torment. never to be deliverd
Is it not possible that one risen again from Death
Can die! When dark despair comes over [me] can I not
Flow down into the sea & slumber in oblivion. Ah Enion
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Deformd I see these lineaments of ungratified Desire
The all powerful curse of an honest man be upon Urizen & Luvah
But thou My Son Glorious in brightness comforter of Tharmas
Go forth Rebuild this Universe beneath my indignant power
5 A Universe of Death & Decay. ”

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William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas‎: Night the Fourth

“ If dashd in pieces from a rocky height
15 I reunite in endless torment. would I had never risen
From deaths cold sleep beneath the bottom of the raging Ocean
And cannot those who once have lovd. ever forget their Love? ”

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William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas‎: Night the Fourth

“ Enslavd humanity put on he became what he beheld
25 Raging against Tharmas his God & uttering
Ambiguous words blasphemous filld with envy firm resolvd
On hate Eternal in his vast disdain he labourd beating
The Links of fate link after link an endless chain of sorrows
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The Eternal Mind bounded began to roll eddies of wrath ceaseless
Round & round & the sulphureous foam surgeing thick
Settled a Lake bright & shining clear. White as the snow
Forgetfulness dumbness necessity in chains of the mind lockd up
5 In fetters of ice shrinking. ”

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