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"Ahania bow'd her head & wept seven days before the King [Urizen of course] And on the eighth day when his clouds unfolded from his throne She rais'd her bright head sweet perfumd & thus with heavenly voice O Prince the Eternal One hath set thee leader of his hosts Leave all futurity to him Resume thy fields of Light t Why didst thou listen to the voice of Luvah that dread morn To give the immortal steeds of light to his deceitful hands No longer now obedient to thy will thou art compell'd To forge the curbs of iron & brass to build the iron mangers To feed them with intoxication from the wine presses of Luvah Till the Divine Vision & Fruition is quite obliterated They call thy lions to the fields of blood, they rowze thy tygers Out of the halls of justice, till these dens thy wisdom framd Golden & beautiful but O how unlike those sweet fields of bliss Where liberty was justice & eternal science was mercy Then O my dear lord listen to Ahania, listen to the vision The vision of Ahania in the slumbers of Urizen When Urizen slept in the porch & the Ancient Man was smitten (Erdman 326-7) "Ahania bow'd her head & wept seven days before the King [Urizen of course] And on the eighth day when his clouds unfolded from his throne She rais'd her bright head sweet perfumd & thus with heavenly voice O Prince the Eternal One hath set thee leader of his hosts Leave all futurity to him Resume thy fields of Light t Why didst thou listen to the voice of Luvah that dread morn To give the immortal steeds of light to his deceitful hands No longer now obedient to thy will thou art compell'd To forge the curbs of iron & brass to build the iron mangers To feed them with intoxication from the wine presses of Luvah Till the Divine Vision & Fruition is quite obliterated They call thy lions to the fields of blood, they rowze thy tygers Out of the halls of justice, till these dens thy wisdom framd Golden & beautiful but O how unlike those sweet fields of bliss Where liberty was justice & eternal science was mercy Then O my dear lord listen to Ahania, listen to the vision The vision of Ahania in the slumbers of Urizen When Urizen slept in the porch & the Ancient Man was smitten (Erdman 326-7)