Chap: VI.
- 1. But Los saw the Female & pitied
- He embrac'd her, she wept, she refus'd
- In perverse and cruel delight
- She fled from his arms, yet he followd
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- 2. Eternity shudder'd when they saw,
- Man begetting his likeness,
- On his own divided image.
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- 3. A time passed over, the Eternals
- Began to erect the tent;
- When Enitharmon sick,
- Felt a Worm within her womb.
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- 4. Yet helpless it lay like a Worm
- In the trembling womb
- To be moulded into existence
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- 5. All day the worm lay on her bosom
- All night within her womb
- The worm lay till it grew to a serpent
- With dolorous hissings & poisons
- Round Enitharmons loins folding,
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- 6. Coild within Enitharmons womb
- The serpent grew casting its scales,
- With sharp pangs the hissings began
- To change to a grating cry,
- Many sorrows and dismal throes,
- Many forms of fish, bird & beast,
- Brought forth an Infant form
- Where was a worm before.
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- 7. The Eternals their tent finished
- Alarm'd with these gloomy visions
- When Enitharmon groaning
- Produc'd a man Child to the light.
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- 8. A shriek ran thro' Eternity:
- And a paralytic stroke;
- At the birth of the Human shadow.
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- 9. Delving earth in his resistless way;
- Howling, the Child with fierce flames
- Issu'd from Enitharmon.
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- 10. The Eternals, closed the tent
- They beat down the stakes the cords
- Stretch'd for a work of eternity;
- No more Los beheld Eternity.
- 11. In his hands he siez'd the infant
- He bathed him in springs of sorrow
- He gave him to Enitharmon.
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