The Marriage of Heaven and HellLuciferianismMystical / EsotericEnglishShareThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell 9Project Gutenberg - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableProject GutenbergLanguageEnglishEspañol‹The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 2The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 3The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 4The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 5The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 6The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 7The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 8The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 9The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 10›A Song Of LibertyThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell 9ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter11. The Eternal Female groan'd; it was heard over all the earth: 22. Albion's coast is sick silent; the American meadows faint. 33. Shadows of prophecy shiver along by the lakes and the rivers, and mutter across the ocean. France, rend down thy dungeon! 44. Golden Spain, burst the barriers of old Rome! 55. Cast thy keys, O Rome, into the deep--down falling, even to eternity down falling; 67. In her trembling hands she took the new-born terror, howling. 78. On those infinite mountains of light now barr'd out by the Atlantic sea, the new-born fire stood before the starry king. 89. Flagg'd with grey-brow'd snows and thunderous visages, the jealous wings wav'd over the deep. 910. The speary hand burn'd aloft; unbuckled was the shield; forth went the hand of jealousy among the flaming hair, and hurl'd the new-born wonder through the starry night. 1011. The fire, the fire is falling! 1112. Look up! look up! O citizen of London, enlarge thy countenance! O Jew, leave counting gold; return to thy oil and wine! O African, black African! (Go, winged thought, widen his forehead.) 1213. The fiery limbs, the flaming hair shot like the sinking sun into the Western sea. 1314. Wak'd from his eternal sleep, the hoary element roaring fled away. 1415. Down rush'd, beating his wings in vain, the jealous king, his grey-brow'd councillors, thunderous warriors, curl'd veterans, among helms and shields, and chariots, horses, elephants, banners, castles, slings, and rocks. 1516. Falling, rushing, ruining; buried in the ruins, on Urthona's dens. 1617. All night beneath the ruins; then their sullen flames, faded, emerge round the gloomy king. 1718. With thunder and fire, leading his starry hosts through the waste wilderness, he promulgates his ten commandments, glancing his beamy eyelids over the deep in dark dismay. 1819. Where the Son of Fire in his Eastern cloud, while the Morning plumes her golden breast, 1920. Spurning the clouds written with curses, stamps the stony law to dust, loosing the eternal horses from the dens of night, crying: "Empire is no more! and now the lion and wolf shall cease." ‹Previous chapterThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell 8Next chapterThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell 10›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public domain in the United States via Project Gutenberg