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ENGRAVED DESIGNS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
right, and is wailed over by four draped figures, left. Two enormous
stars are on the horizon. The corpse of Albion bewailed by the Five
Senses. (Damon.) Or may it be the fallen Albion bewailed by Vala
and Jerusalem i See Ghapter I, n.
394. Page 11. Design above the text. On a lake, a swan with a human
body drinks of the water. A grove of trees is on the farther shore.
Below the text, a nude woman with flaming hair, necklet and bracelets
of pearls, and the leaf-like wings of the fairy forms on p. 3, flies, left,
through the sky (or water i). Fish in the margin of the text.
Damon interprets the upper design as the brainless woman absorbed
in Time and Space (water), and the lower as Inspiration. It is, how-
ever, hard to believe in this latter explanation. As finished in colours,
the figure is sensual and repulsive, and the jewels suggest worldliness.
395. Page 12. In the right margin, three figures : the lowest supports a
globe, which the one above measures with compasses ; the third up-
holds the globe.
396. Page 13. In the margin, is a vine, and among its tendrils a bat-like
creature which a woman tries to grasp. Another bat flies above.
397. Page 14. A rainbow arches over a sleeping male figure. Within
the arch of the bow a winged fairy-form hovers, with new moon and
stars about her. In the upper right margin are stars.
See reproduction, Plate 66.
According to Damon, this is Enitharmon (Inspiration) visiting the
Poet (Los) in his sleep.
398. Page 15. A nude man with wind-blown hair and beard, and out-
stretched arms, comes flying, and is intercepted by a smaller figure,
who seems part of a branching tree.
This appears to be Abraham fleeing from Chaldsea (1. 28) and
opposed by Reuben, the vegetating Man.
399. Page 18. Near the top of the page; two winged female forms,
one (at the right) crowned with roses, the other with lilies, float
opposite each other with their right feet touching. Between them
their Emanations fly to kiss each other, and on each side of these is a
boat-shaped moon with a sail.
Damon takes this as an illustration to p, 19,11. 40-44 : “ He found
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right, and is wailed over by four draped figures, left. Two enormous
stars are on the horizon. The corpse of Albion bewailed by the Five
Senses. (Damon.) Or may it be the fallen Albion bewailed by Vala
and Jerusalem i See Ghapter I, n.
394. Page 11. Design above the text. On a lake, a swan with a human
body drinks of the water. A grove of trees is on the farther shore.
Below the text, a nude woman with flaming hair, necklet and bracelets
of pearls, and the leaf-like wings of the fairy forms on p. 3, flies, left,
through the sky (or water i). Fish in the margin of the text.
Damon interprets the upper design as the brainless woman absorbed
in Time and Space (water), and the lower as Inspiration. It is, how-
ever, hard to believe in this latter explanation. As finished in colours,
the figure is sensual and repulsive, and the jewels suggest worldliness.
395. Page 12. In the right margin, three figures : the lowest supports a
globe, which the one above measures with compasses ; the third up-
holds the globe.
396. Page 13. In the margin, is a vine, and among its tendrils a bat-like
creature which a woman tries to grasp. Another bat flies above.
397. Page 14. A rainbow arches over a sleeping male figure. Within
the arch of the bow a winged fairy-form hovers, with new moon and
stars about her. In the upper right margin are stars.
See reproduction, Plate 66.
According to Damon, this is Enitharmon (Inspiration) visiting the
Poet (Los) in his sleep.
398. Page 15. A nude man with wind-blown hair and beard, and out-
stretched arms, comes flying, and is intercepted by a smaller figure,
who seems part of a branching tree.
This appears to be Abraham fleeing from Chaldsea (1. 28) and
opposed by Reuben, the vegetating Man.
399. Page 18. Near the top of the page; two winged female forms,
one (at the right) crowned with roses, the other with lilies, float
opposite each other with their right feet touching. Between them
their Emanations fly to kiss each other, and on each side of these is a
boat-shaped moon with a sail.
Damon takes this as an illustration to p, 19,11. 40-44 : “ He found
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