Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake!
Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake!
Original Text
William Blake, Jerusalem (1804).
2 Jerusalem thy Sister calls!
3Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death
4 And close her from thy ancient walls?
5Thy hills and valleys felt her feet
6 Gently upon their bosoms move:
7Thy gates beheld sweet Zion's ways:
8 Then was a time of joy and love.
9And now the time returns again:
10 Our souls exult, and London's towers
11Receive the Lamb of God to dwell
12 In England's green and pleasant bowers.
Notes
1] First engraved by Blake in or shortly after 1818, although it bears the date 1804 on its title-page. It is in four parts and comprises one hundred plates. Six copies survive, one in colour. The first extract is from Plate 15 in the first part; the second is from the introduction to the fourth part, Plate 77. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1818
Publication Notes
ca. 1818 (the stated date of printing notwithstanding)
RPO poem Editors
Northrop Frye
RPO Edition
3RP 2.299.
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