1. The Jonah of London - William Blake
... him and send them out to cleanse the world. Like the "mighty Devil" that he saw emblazoning a message of immensity upon the press-plate of the world, the "flat sided steep" that "frowns over the present world," the abyss of the five senses, Blake the poet prophet shall burn with corroding acids into the copper-plate cliff of the abyss infinities to be "perceived by ... the minds of men & read by them on earth." His messages ... consume and hesitate not, when "the wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God" and "the roaring lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the...
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