| William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908. | | | | Selections from ‘Milton’ | | [The Mundane Shell] |
| | (Milton, f. 16, ll. 21–7.)
THE MUNDANE SHELL is a vast Concave Earth, an immense | |
| Harden’d Shadow of all things upon our Vegetated Earth, | |
| Enlarg’d into Dimension and deform’d into indefinite Space, | |
| In Twenty-seven Heavens and all their Hells, with Chaos | |
| And Ancient Night and Purgatory. It is a cavernous Earth | 5 |
| Of labyrinthine intricacy, twenty-seven folds of Opaqueness, | |
| And finishes where the lark mounts. | | | | |
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