A Vision of Albion

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     I see the Fourfold Man; the Humanity in deadly sleep,
     And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow.
     I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once
     Before me. O Divine Spirit! sustain me on thy wings,
     That I may awake Albion from his long and cold repose;
     For Bacon and Newton, sheath'd in dismal steel, their terrors hang
     Like iron scourges over Albion. Reasonings like vast Serpents
     Enfold around my limbs, bruising my minute articulations.
     I turn my eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe,
     And there behold the Loom of Locke, whose Woof rages dire,
     Wash'd by the Water-wheels of Newton: black the cloth
     In heavy wreaths folds over every Nation: cruel Works
     Of many Wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic,
     Moving by compulsion each other; not as those in Eden, which,
     Wheel within wheel, in freedom revolve, in harmony and peace.