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ENGRAVED DESIGNS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
407. Page 26. Jerusalem gazes in horror at Hand who walks wreathed
in flames of torment. Their names are engraved beneath the figures ;
and engraved crossways on the plate, left, are the lines :
Such visions have appeared to me
-4s I my ordered course have run
between the figures is :
Jerusalem is named Liberty
and at the right:
Among the sons of Albion.
No text.
Hand is the man dominated by Reason.
408. Page 28. Jerusalem. Chap. 2.
Two feminine nude figures, each with long hair (golden in the
coloured copy) embrace in a huge lily that grows above the sea.
Text below, and sea-shells in the margin.
See reproduction, Plate 68.
Damon regards this as a design,like that in The Song ofLos (No. 335),
of the King and Queen of the Fairies (natural joys) in the Lily of
Havilah. It is surely rather Jerusalem and Vala assimilating in one
(p. 19, 1. 40). The Lily of Havilah is a title given to Vala in this
passage.
409. Page 29. At the right of the text a nude woman stands with lifted
arms among flames. Below are figures falling headlong.
410. Page 30. Los, kneeling on one knee, right, holds out his hands
towards two winged forms that fly toward him, his Spectre and his
Emanation. Text below, with vine decoration at the bottom of the
page.
“ And the Two that escaped were the Emanation of Los and his
Spectre ; for wherever the Emanation goes the Spectre attends her ”
(p. 30,1. 1).
411. Page 31. Below the text, two collapsed female forms ; oneofthem
is enmeshed in a net.
412. Page 32. Vala, darkly veiled, parleys with Jerusalem, a nude
figure, whose young daughters stand on either side of her. Vala’s
steps are directed towards a dome surmounted by a cross; on the
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407. Page 26. Jerusalem gazes in horror at Hand who walks wreathed
in flames of torment. Their names are engraved beneath the figures ;
and engraved crossways on the plate, left, are the lines :
Such visions have appeared to me
-4s I my ordered course have run
between the figures is :
Jerusalem is named Liberty
and at the right:
Among the sons of Albion.
No text.
Hand is the man dominated by Reason.
408. Page 28. Jerusalem. Chap. 2.
Two feminine nude figures, each with long hair (golden in the
coloured copy) embrace in a huge lily that grows above the sea.
Text below, and sea-shells in the margin.
See reproduction, Plate 68.
Damon regards this as a design,like that in The Song ofLos (No. 335),
of the King and Queen of the Fairies (natural joys) in the Lily of
Havilah. It is surely rather Jerusalem and Vala assimilating in one
(p. 19, 1. 40). The Lily of Havilah is a title given to Vala in this
passage.
409. Page 29. At the right of the text a nude woman stands with lifted
arms among flames. Below are figures falling headlong.
410. Page 30. Los, kneeling on one knee, right, holds out his hands
towards two winged forms that fly toward him, his Spectre and his
Emanation. Text below, with vine decoration at the bottom of the
page.
“ And the Two that escaped were the Emanation of Los and his
Spectre ; for wherever the Emanation goes the Spectre attends her ”
(p. 30,1. 1).
411. Page 31. Below the text, two collapsed female forms ; oneofthem
is enmeshed in a net.
412. Page 32. Vala, darkly veiled, parleys with Jerusalem, a nude
figure, whose young daughters stand on either side of her. Vala’s
steps are directed towards a dome surmounted by a cross; on the
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