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Spread a Tent, with strong While far into the vast unknown,
curtains around them the strong wing'd Eagles bend
Let cords & stakes bind in the Void Their venturous flight, in Human
That Eternals may no more forms distinct; thro darkness deep
behold them They bear the woven
They began to weave curtains draperies; on golden hooks
of darkness they hang abroad
They erected large pillars The universal curtains &
round the Void spread out from Sun to Sun
With golden hooks fastend in The vehicles of light, they
the pillars separate the furious particles
With infinite labour the Eternals Into mild currents as the water
A woof wove, and called it Science mingles with the wine
(Blake, The Book of Urizen, (Blake, 1963, 2-29.8-2-29.13,
19.2-19.9, E 78) E 319)
However, these “Eagles” of The universal curtains in
intellect prove that imagination this poem signifies universal
is still conceivable in the inmost reason and furious particles
spreads of Urizen's domain. Under symbolizes partial reason. The
these challenging levels, energy tone of the passage is
accedes to those of surrounding dialectically positive. This description
reason; and natural life stays through the “vehicle of light”
unkindly imprisoned into a moves beyond the restricted
death cycle. These potentials world of “The Book of
are intensely reinforced by Urizen” to a new concept of
images of regeneration in the reason. This renewed notion of
following lines: universal reason is as
