Blake
Let poetry once more be restored to her ancient truth and purity.-William Blake
I have had a great ambition —
to know everything.
Spencer, Shakespeare, and Milton.
”Ages are All equal. But Genius is Always Above the Age.”
Ossian, Behmen, and Paracelsus.
Rejoice at the resurrection — now the dead speak through me.
Locke and Bacon.
Inspiration and vision they mocked.
But what can they tell?
Heaven longs to see itself in material form.
The world aspires to be reunited with its spiritual essence.
Characters compose all ages and nations.
One falls, another rises.
Different from the mortal sight.
Same in immortality.
Signs point and repeat again, again, again.
In animal, in vegetable, in mineral.
In man.
Nothing new occurs in identical existence:
Accidents ever vary.
Substances never change nor decay.
This is what I learnt,
through history and art.
