| William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908. | | | | Selections from ‘The Four Zoas’ | | [Los in his Wrath] |
| | (Four Zoas, Night VII, First Version, ll. 38–46.)
LOS rear’d his mighty stature: on Earth stood his feet; above | |
| The Moon his furious forehead, circled with black bursting thunders; | |
| His naked limbs glitt’ring upon the dark blue sky, his knees | |
| Bathèd in bloody clouds; his loins in fires of War, where spears | |
| And swords rage, where the Eagles cry and Vultures laugh, saying: | 5 |
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| ‘Now comes the night of carnage, now the flesh of Kings and Princes | |
| Pamper’d in palaces for our food, the blood of Captains nurtur’d | |
| With lust and murder for our drink. The drunken Raven shall wander | |
| All night among the slain, and mock the wounded that groan in the field.’ | | | | |
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