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William Blake: A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne

3. Shadows of Prophecy shiver along by the lakes and the rivers, and

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mutter across the ocean. France, rend down thy dungeon;
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1. Chapter 1 2. 16. TIRIEL. (MS.) 3. 3. Shadows of Prophecy shiver along by the lakes and the rivers, and 4. 5. Cast thy keys, O Rome, into the deep down falling, even to 5. 8. On those infinite mountains of light now barred out by the 6. 9. Flag'd with grey-browed snows and thunderous visages the jealous 7. 10. The speary hand burned aloft, unbuckled was the shield, forth 8. 12. Look up! look up! O citizen of London, enlarge thy countenance: O 9. 13. The fiery limbs, the flaming hair, shot like the sinking sun into 10. 14. Waked from his eternal sleep, the hoary element roaring fled 11. 15. Down rushed, beating his wings in vain, the jealous King; his 12. 16. Falling, rushing, ruining! buried in the ruins, on Urthona's 13. 17. All night beneath the ruins, then their sullen flames faded 14. 18. With thunder and fire, leading his starry hosts thro' the waste 15. 19. Where the son of fire in his eastern cloud, while the morning 16. 20. Spurning the clouds written with curses, stamps the stony law to

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