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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