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1. Lo, a shadow of horror is risen

In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific!

Self-closd, all-repelling: what Demon

Hath form'd this abominable void

This soul-shudd'ring vacuum?--Some said

"It is Urizen", But unknown, abstracted

Brooding secret, the dark power hid.

2.Times on times he divided, & measur'd

Space by space in his ninefold darkness

Unseen, unknown! changes appeard

In his desolate mountains rifted furious

By the black winds of perturbation

3. For he strove in battles dire

In unseen conflictions with shapes

Bred from his forsaken wilderness,

Of beast, bird, fish, serpent & element

Combustion, blast, vapour and cloud.

4. Dark revolving in silent activity:

Unseen in tormenting passions;

An activity unknown and horrible;

A self-contemplating shadow,

In enormous labours occupied

5. But Eternals beheld his vast forests

Age on ages he lay, clos'd, unknown

Brooding shut in the deep; all avoid

The petrific abominable chaos

6. His cold horrors silent, dark Urizen

Prepar'd: his ten thousands of thunders

Rang'd in gloom'd array stretch out across

The dread world, & the rolling of wheels

As of swelling seas, sound in his clouds

In his hills of stor'd snows, in his mountains

Of hail & ice; voices of terror,

Are heard, like thunders of autumn,

When the cloud blazes over the harvests